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The piece was inspired by a black and white reproduction of Arnold Böcklin's painting, "Isle of the Dead", which Rachmaninoff saw in Paris in 1907. Rachmaninoff was disappointed by the original painting when he later saw it, saying, "If I had seen first the original, I, probably, would have not written my "Isle of the Dead". I like it in black and white."