Romain de Tirtoff (Erte ) (1892-1990)... Satyr

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André Marty (1882 -1974)...watercolour...

Ida Rubinstein dans La Gisanelle Original watercolor for Gazette Du Bon Ton

Alfred Kubin...illustration...

Magic 1929

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Alastair... The Temptation of St Anthony...

another scan from one of my favourite illustrators Alastair (Hans Henning Voigt)

Anger - One of the seven deadly sins in all his magnificence, holding two spiked balls aloft, his body dripping with blood,

from Alastair Illustrator of Decadence Victor Arwas - Thames and Hudson

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Andre Domin ...illustration for "Litanies de la Rose"...1919

"Litanies de la Rose"
Remy de Gourmont (Author)
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1919

Rose with dark eyes,
mirror of your nothingness,
rose with dark eyes,
make us believe in the mystery,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.

Rose the colour of pure gold,
oh safe deposit of the ideal,
rose the colour of pure gold,
give us the key of your womb,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.

Rose the colour of silver,
censer of our dreams,
rose the colour of silver,
take our heart and turn it into smoke,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.

Remy de Gourmont

Elie Grekoff (1914-1985) ... Tiresias...illustrations 1954

from TIRESIAS by Marcel Jouhandeau, 1954

these illustrations are from the Bibliothèque Gay

an interesting essay on Marcel Jouhandeau's Tiresias >>  by Ed Madden
The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis

Rose O'Neill...drawing...Sweet monsters...

“I am in love with magic and monsters,
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
 

more at Rose O'Neill org

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Voudon Paper Cuts.... the Magick Art of Hagen von Tulien

Dark Illuminations ~ Paper Cut 2010

Société ~ Paper Cut 2010

From Beyond ~ Paper Cut 2010

Vignette ~ Ink on paper 2010

all works © copyright by Hagen von Tulien

Hagen von Tuliens Official Myspace

D'AUREVILLY Barbey...What never dies ...

 from D'AUREVILLY Barbey — What Never Dies. A romance. Translated from the French by Sebastian Malmoth (Oscar Wilde). 1928. Privately Printed

illustrated by Donald Denton

Erte... graphic work...

Santiago Caruso...sublime imagery

The amazing illustrations of Santiago Caruso, please check out his blog

Santiago CARUSO

Viset (Luc Lafnet)...Satyr.. Louis Perceau...Le Cabinet Secret du Parnasse 1932

Frans de Geetere ...LAUTREAMONT...Maldoror 1927

Erte...

and from same Link below two favourite Ertes

Erotic Art.... Satyrs

* with thanks to Bernard Perroud for image above and Link.

Two favourites from Gerda Wegener

Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate, (1902-1993) ..illustrations

Lettice Sandford was born Lettice Mackintosh Rate in St Albans, Hertfordshire. She was one of the foremost female wood engravers of the between-the-wars engraving boom, and illustrated many fine press editions; her husband Christopher Sandford was proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press one of my favourites along with Black Sun Press.

from Song of Songs

from The Golden Bed of Kydno 

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Julio Ruelas(1870-1907) ... Mexico... Mujer alacrán 1904

Leo Fontan... Faunesse!

Alan Sillitoe...Poem

Alan Sillitoe, 4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010.

Hannes Bok

sonnet: love

Love is not to be sought and known

When a mere comet-flash means dark

Oncoming doom. Who seek Love stand alone--
(Do not dream what visitations mark

The final pain of procreative world,

What blood-bellied moons of solstice red

Shine at myrtle-berried midnight)--are killed

In stone-cold bodies never brought to bed.

Love is antique, no fickle mind

Can satisfy it; and never Hope will gain

An entrance to loins that like a wind

Spin a black night into a wheel of pain:

Not to know, and a tiger's black and gold,

Can the vast orbit of Love's pleasure hold. 

Hannes Bok... illustrator