The image on the back of a 100 Swiss francs banknote?

[Perun]

I just noticed an interesting picture on the back of a 100 swiss francs banknote, sort of a circle, divided into eight equal parts (sort of like cake slices). The six points where the dividing lines meet the circle have names listed (topmost first, listed clockwise):
- La nuit (that's night in French, right?)
- Le Sphinx (not a difficult one to guess)
- Le déjeuner samedi
- Le pain dans le canal
- La mort de T
- Les tętes figéens dans le vide
- Les objets
- Le ręve dans le ręve

Does anyone know what the image respresents? It looks interesting, and since I don't know French, it's even more intriguing

 

[randomling]

- La nuit (that's night in French, right?)
- Le Sphinx (not a difficult one to guess)
- Le déjeuner samedi
- Le pain dans le canal
- La mort de T
- Les tętes figéens dans le vide
- Les objets
- Le ręve dans le ręve

The night
The Sphinx
Saturday lunchtime
The bread in the canal
The death of T
The heads [something] in the [something]?
Objects
The dream within the dream

Never having seen the banknote, though, I don't know what the image is about...

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

scan it!

The quote about the head probably is

"Les têtes figées dans le vide". "Têtes" is "Heads", "Figées" is "Stuck" or "Immobile", "dans le vide" means "in the void" or "in the vacuum" or "in emptiness".

AR

Edit: Just read that it's a representation of Giacometti's (the sculptor) autobiographical piece called "the dream, the sphinx and the death of T."

http://www.snb.ch/f/banknoten/aktuelle_serie/persoenlichkeiten/person.html

"since narrative linearity didn't represent Giacometti's past, Giacometti looked for a solution in the form of a model: he represents time as a horizontal disk, who's segments point toward different events. On the panels appear the stories related to these events."

AR

 

[Krug]

Somebody call Dan Brown right now!

 

[Perun]

Edit: Just read that it's a representation of Giacometti's (the sculptor) autobiographical piece called "the dream, the sphinx and the death of T."

http://www.snb.ch/f/banknoten/aktuelle_serie/persoenlichkeiten/person.html

"since narrative linearity didn't represent Giacometti's past, Giacometti looked for a solution in the form of a model: he represents time as a horizontal disk, who's segments point toward different events. On the panels appear the stories related to these events."

AR

Thanks, Altamont, the idea to visit the SNB site didn't even occur to me! Although I have to admit I'm a bit dissapointed, I was hoping for something more, well, occult, I guess

scan it!

I presume you don't need the scan anymore, since you found the pics n the site, right?

Thanks again!

 

[Scribble]

The Death of T??? Is this prophetic??? I pity the fool who make pophecies about T's Death!

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

The drawing might not be occult, but I'm pretty sure the texts in question are pretty weird!

AR