Gustav Klimt (1862-1918 ) ... Self portrait as the grim reaper, pencil on cardboard , undated

Josef Váchal (1884-1969) .., Untitled. watercolour and ink drawing c 1940

Jan Konůpek (1883-1950) ...The Underworld, pen and ink on paper, 1944

Jan Konůpek (1883-1950) ...Believers, watercolour and pencil drawing, 1923

Josef Váchal (1884-1969) ....Woodcut from Dokonalá magie budoucnosti (Perfect magic of the future), 1920-192

Felicien Rops (1833-1898)...Hand on heart, drypoint on paper, date unknown

Albert Decaris (1901-1988)...illustration for Four Plays by Christopher Marlowe, 1966

Ex Libris...Walter Steinecke (1888-1975) c1930

Alastair (Baron Hans Henning Voigt) (1887-1969) ... illustration for Red Skeletons, selected poems of Harry Crosby 1927

Temple De La Douleur - Poem by Harry Crosby

My soul has suffered breaking on the wheel,

Flogging with lead, and felt the twinging ache

Of barbéd hooks and jagged points of steel,

Peine forte et dure, slow burning at the stake,

Blinding and branding, stripping on the rack,

The canque and kourbash and the torquéd screw,

The boot and branks, red scourging on the back,

The gallows and the gibbet. All for you.

These tortures are as nothing to the pain

That I have suffered when you gaze at me

With cold disdainful eyes. You do not deign

To smile or talk or even set me free-

Yet once you let me hold your perfumed hand

And danced with me a stately saraband.

Ex Libris... Karl Ritter (1888 - 1987) c 1930

Leonor Fini (1908-1996) ... illustration for The Temptation Of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert, lithograph 1966