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These fantasies are frequently inhabited by men, women and animals engaged in strange or ritualistic behaviour, sometimes endowed with supernatural powers such as the ability to float or fly. Here Brandel has created a kind of Tower of Babel with vast arcades spiralling heavenward and inhabited at different levels with floating horsemen, elephants, a Buddha, a winged couple and, at the top, a female torso with belly disclosing an embryonic child. Near the foot of the image an inscription in Italian reads ‘Potrebbe qui dubitarre’ (‘One may here doubt’).","physicalDescription":"Image with a tower to the left with arcades of very high arches, spiralling up into the heavens, but also extending across the picture plane to the right,  even more enormous arches on  spindle-thin colulumns. At the bottom of the picture plane an arch with a road leading through it which spirals up supported by the colonnades. An inscription on the arch reads POTREBBE QUI GUBITARE ?  There are other, illegible, inscriptions on other parts of the architecture. 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Also stamped with the artist's stamp but very faintly."},{"content":"I etat/ E#2","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"First state","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The inscription 'I etat'  barely legible.  E#2 is inscribed at  bottom of sheet on far left margin."}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Konstanty Brandel: 'Le Doute'  [Doubt], drypoint and etching, 1918.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Konstanty Brandel Muzeum Narodow w Warszawie, Galeria Szfuki Wspolczesnej.  Warsaw Listopad- grudzien 1977.  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