The enigmatic artist lived a secretive life tainted by scandal, and his colleagues at the Royal Academy can't agree on whether he was a "friendless recluse," a "tender . . . friend" or a "crazed dwarf."

An enigmatic and eclectic artist, he appears to have emerged out of no major apprenticeship.

She is rescued by an enigmatic artist (Mr. Lynch), with whom she falls in love.

Yet despite a century's influence and an abundance of literature that has successively denounced, extolled and interpreted his work, Cezanne remains an enigmatic artist, his impact on subsequent generations more quantifiable than his artistic intentions.

Of course, as might be expected of the enigmatic Swedish artist, it is not quite that simple.

Into this precarious balance wafts Annie, an enigmatic, free-spirited artist who flings open the windows of the girls' lives on the wide world that lies beyond their tightly shuttered existence.

All those are true celebrations of an eternally enigmatic artist.

Dual Plover is a pioneering independent Australian record label, founded in Sydney in 1996, notable for discovering some of the most enigmatic artists in experimental music.

They're also authentic, or at least as authentic as they can be when it comes to such an enigmatic artist.

And it is the clearest, strongest thing this influential, famously enigmatic artist, who is 42 and lives in New York City, has ever done.