Achille Calzi (1873 – 1919) ~ The Witch , mixed media, 1913.

Achille Calzi (1873 – 1919) ~ illustration for Les Fleurs du Mal, mixed media on paper, 1913.

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

illustration for The Love Books of Ovid, 1925.

Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (1863-1953) ~ illustration for Bruges-la-Morte by G. Rodenbach,1930.

Alexander Rothaug (1870-1946) ~ Evocation, mixed media on paper.

Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859 - 1938) ~ Lust and death, Watercolour and heightened gouache on pencil line, illustration for the Temptation of St Anthony by Gustave Flaubert published in 1907.

Helen Ernst (1904-1948) ~ Würzelliexe , watercolour date unknown

Louis Châlon (1866-1916) ~ The dream of water , gouache on paper, 1899

Paul Avril (1849-1928) ~ illustration for Octave Uzanne 1888

Roberto Montenegro ( 1887–1968) ...Allegory of Death 1909

Paul-Émile Bécat (1885-1960) ... illustration for Ovide Les Amours published 1955

                               

Harry Clarke (1889 - 1931) .. The Devil's Wife and .her Eldest, pen and ink, reproduced in The Golden Hind, 1924

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

Alex Székely(1901-1968)... Charles Baudelaire, Hősszerelmesek 1943

Abel Pann... The Bible: Genesis, from the Creation until the Deluge...1924

M. Fröhlich... illustration... Else Lasker-Schüler 1907

 

illustration of Else Lasker-Schüler from "Tino of Baghdad" by Else Lasker-Schüler  1907

To the Barbarian

The rough drops of your blood

Bring sweetness to my skin.

Do not call my eyes traitresses

Because they’re floating around your skies;

I’m resting on your night, smiling

And teaching your stars how to play.

And I’m walking through the rusty gate

Of your bliss with a song.

I love you and am coming nearer, in white

And transfigured on pilgrimage toes,

I’m taking your haughty heart,

Pure chalice, with me to the angels.

I love you as if I’d died

And my soul were spread across you –

My soul took in all the pain,

Its bitter images will shatter you.

But there are so many roses in bloom

I’d like to give you;

I’d like to bring you all the gardens

Woven into a wreath.

I keep thinking of you

Until the clouds drop down;

We’d like to kiss,

Wouldn’t we?

by  Else Lasker-Schüler

Gio Colucci... book illustration... The Torture Garden..

illustration from Octave Mirbeaus Torture Garden 1925

from The Torture Garden, written by Octave Mirbeau in 1899

Hannes Bok... illustrator

The Songs of Bilitis... Willy Pogany & Pierre Louÿs...

I sing my flesh and my life...
Stay softly couched, oh, my body, according to your voluptuous mission! Taste daily joys and passions whose tomorrow never comes. Leave no pleasure unexplored, lest you regret the evening of your death....

The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs

 

Felix Labisse (French, 1905-1982)... film poster

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