Showing posts with label birthdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthdays. Show all posts
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Born today...Jean De Bosschere, 5 July 1878, Uccle, Belgium.

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illustration for The Love Books of Ovid, 1925.
Saturday, January 4, 2020

André Masson (1896 - 1987) ~ The Magicians, oil on canvas 1936.

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Saturday, April 6, 2019

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) ~ 999, oil on canvas ,1948.

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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Dolorosa de La Cruz...Für Max Ernst mask, 'Oscular Troth' ,mixed media, 2019.

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Monday, January 28, 2019

Gustav-Adolf Mossa (1883 – 1971) ~ Solomon,oil, gilding and glass beads on canvas 1908

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Born today... George William Russell Æ, April 10, 1867, Lurgan, Northern Ireland

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''Yet of my night I give you the stars, And of my sorrow here the sweetest gains...'' image: George William...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) ~ Pilgrim of the Sublunary World from Dreams, lithograph, 1891

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On the satin back of the avalanche soft,  She falls into lingering swoons, as she dies,  While she lifteth her eyes to white visions al...

Born today...Charles Pierre Baudelaire, poet, April 9, 1821, Paris, France

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The Spiritual Dawn When upon revellers the stained dawn breaks  The fierce ideal comes with it; at that hour,  Stirred by some ...
Friday, February 2, 2018

José Guadalupe Posada (1852 – 1913)...illustrated covers for Biblioteca del niño mexicano, commisioned in 1900

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Monday, September 25, 2017

Born today... Eva Švankmajerová, September 25, 1940, Kostelec nad Černými lesy, Czech Republic image: Fall, oil on canvas

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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Odilon Redon (1840-1916)... Towards Ecstacy, charcoal on paper 1885

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Born today... Erté, November 23, 1892, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... Le Triomphe de la femme, Eve, gouache on paper

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Born today...John Wallis, November 23, 1616, Ashford, United Kingdom. Mathematician and cryptographer who introduce the infinity symbol in 1655 in his De sectionibus conicis. image: Pamela Colman Smith (1878 – 1951) illustration from the Waite Tarot

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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Dolorosa de la Cruz ...for Nietzsche ~ "If Zeus don't charm" ~ Oct 2012 ~ pastel and pencil on paper. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche born today October 15, 1844, Röcken, Germany

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) ... Fighting Skeletons, charcoal on paper

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Born Today... José Guadalupe Posada,February 2, 1852, Aguascalientes, Mexico

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Nuestra Señora de los Remedios
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Born today... Méret Oppenheim, 6 October 1913 Berlin, Germany

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Méret Oppenheim ~ Enchantment 1962 Meret Oppenheim ~ Breakfast in Fur 1936 ''All thoughts that have ever ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Born today... René Magritte, November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium

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Studies for the beyond, ca 1938 Pencil on Paper
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Comte de Lautréamont (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870)...Happy Birthday...

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Chants de Maldoror illustration  Hans Bellmer 1971 Pale hair in thick windings Crackled in shadows horribly; And ...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Hans Christian Andersen...Happy Birthday... Picture book...1869

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Hans Christian Ørsted's Picture-Book  was made in 1869 by Mathilde Ørsted and Hans Christian Andersen. '...