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

Méret Oppenheim ~ Enchantment 1962

Meret Oppenheim ~ Breakfast in Fur 1936

''All thoughts that have ever been thought roll around the Earth in a colossal sphere of ideas. The Earth explodes, the sphere is shattered, and the thoughts spread across the universe, where they live on in distant stars."

from "Self-Portrait from 50.000 BC to X" (1980) ~ Méret Oppenheim

Valentine Hugo (1887-1968) ~ Couple anthropomorphe

 

Brion Gysin (1916-1986)... Composition, ink on paper

Ithell Colquhoun.... Autumnal Equinox, oil on canvas 1949

Muin (Sept 2nd-30th)

I am the month of Muin, month of the vine

Exhilaration is mine through the garland of fruit

Draped from the right shoulder across the swell

Of a belly like Primavera's; yet mine of early

Fall is the realm. On the head too are grapes

And the vine-leaves wreathing my autumn-coloured hair

My robe the bluish mist of a sky pregnant

With the first heavy dews.

How calm I am! Yet is there perhaps hidden

AN anger that gives authority to my poise?

I drank from the horn-cup and swam into a trance

So deep that only attraction amethystine

Recalls me, after a voyage through gates of horn

I come now to bless and renew dreams that are true

-Ithell Colquhoun

Toyen (1902-1980)... At the Mercy of Their Gaze, 1957

Toyen ~ At the Mercy of Their Gaze, oil on canvas 1957

Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988)... Imbolc... Feb 2 1972

Dorothea Tanning... Sequestrians, oil on canvas 1976-83

Dorothea Tanning... Self portrait, oil on canvas 19444

Born today...André Masson ... Être et le néant (Being and Nothingness), indian ink drawing, 1941

Grace Pailthorpe...Ancestors II ...1935

Ithell Colquhoun... Gorgon... 1946

Ithell Colquhoun ... A Visitation... 1944

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

Studies for the beyond, ca 1938 Pencil on Paper

Toyen (MARIE ČERMÍNOVÁ) 1902-1980.... Portrait of Andre Breton ... 1950

signed and dedicated à andré Breton / Toyen / 18 II 1950 

crayon, charcoal, oil and glitter on linen, held by two wood batons as a scroll

Max Walter Svanberg (1912 – 1994)...prints... Arthur Rimbaud 'Illuminations'...1956

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) ... paintings...

Untitled (Ballet for Owl), 1952

The Ivory Tower, 1945

Head on a plate 1936

Leon Kelly (1901-1982)...painting and drawings...

LE POÈTE ZOOLOGISTE, 1946

THE SIENESE REPTILE, 1946

THE POET OF THE MOUNTAIN, 1946

CATALONIAN FABLE SALTAMONTÉS Y RANA, 1946

EMBRYONIC PORTRAITS, 1946

COCOONS, 1946

CAVE OF THE LIMPID POOL, 1944

Hans Bellmer... pencil drawing...Untitled

Hans Bellmer... The Hands ... 1955

Victor Brauner... Untitled painting... 1940