Georges Lepape (1887-1971) ~ Costume design for l'Oiseau bleu 1925

 

Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911) ~ The Hours, oil on canvas, c1904.

 

 

Frederick Sandys (1829–1904) ~ Illustration to Harold Harfagr, 1862.

 

Charles Ricketts ( 1866-1931) ~ Cover design for 'Saint Joan' by Bernard Shaw, pencil, pen and brown ink, heightened with white on paper.

Achille Calzi (1873 – 1919) ~ illustration for Fleurs du Mal, 1913.

Manuel Orazi (1860-1934) ~ illustration for Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, 1934.

Édouard Chimot (1880 -1959) ~ illustration for Maurice Magre, 1920.

I do not know whether there are people who escape despair, and if there are, I believe that they are not very numerous. I do not envy those people. There is in despair a bitter substance, a fecund poison, the seed of a superior virtue that one cannot find elsewhere. Everyone, sooner or later, ought to aspire to the juice of the hemlock that gives wings, the sacred belladonna. But it is necessary to be able to drink the poison and not die.

-Maurice Magre

Suzanne Ballivet (1904 - 1985) ~ illustrations for the adventures of King Pausolus by Pierre LOUYS 1927

Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) ~ A Sleeping Demon, from Devils in Diverse Shapes, coloured woodcut, 1906.

Fidus (Hugo Höppener) (1868-1948) ~ Für Nietzsche, pencil on cardboard, 1898.

Luc Lafnet (1899–1939) ~ illustration for Les étreintes sacrilèges, sonnets of Lucio Dornano 1926

MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) ~ The Eyes Have It, mixed media on board, c1950s

Richard Duschek (1884-1959) ~ Walpurgisnacht, Faust c 1945

Richard Duschek (1884-1959) ~ Faust, The tragedy first part , Prologue in the skm illustration c1945

Erich Godal (1899-1969) ~ Erotic drawings 1922

Édouard Chimot (1880 – 1959) ~ illustration for Les Fleurs du mal, 1941

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 - 1898) ... Dreams, December 1894

Leo Impekoven (1873-1943)... Adam and Eve, erotic porfolio c1930

Edouard Chimot (1880-1959)... Dreams and Masturbation, pencil, pastel and chalk c 1920

Mahlon Blaine (1894 - 1969) ... the Gorgon, 1949