A giant eye rises above a hillside, gazing at the sleeping Galatea below. The monster is enormous, but not violent. He looks shy, tender, almost ashamed of his own size. Redon turns myth into a strange image of longing from a distance.

Oil on cardboard or panel with soft color, blurred contours, and dreamlike landscape forms.

The single eye represents desire, watching, and isolation. Galatea’s sleep makes longing one-sided and unreachable.

Late Symbolism often reworked myth through psychology rather than heroic narrative.

The work anticipated Surrealist tenderness toward strange dream beings.