Sunday, November 24, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Karl Priebe (1914-1976)... painting
“Rehearsal for a Suicide”, c.1946 watercolor, colored pencil and mixed media/black paper, 16” x 20”
Monday, November 18, 2013
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Agostino Carracci (1557-1602)... Griffin and Head of Satyr ...1590/94
Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Louis Marcoussis...illustrations for Guillaume Apollinaire's Alcohol... 1913
The Betrothal, etching, plate 29 from Alcools1934
“And the solitary cord of sea lutes.”
Singer, plate eight from Alcools1934
Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools1934
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight’s a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Lul of Faltenin, plate eighteen from Alcools1934
Rosemonde, plate 21 from Alcools1934
I named her Rosemonde
Lest I forget
Mouth flowered in Holland
Then slowly I took my way
Seeking the rose of the world
May Den Engelsen... illustrations...Charles Baudelaire's Condemned Poems... 1927
Lesbos
Mother of Latin games and Greek delights,
Lesbos, where kisses, languishing or joyous,
Burning as the sun's light, cool as melons,
Adorn the nights and the glorious days;
Mother of Latin games and Greek delights,
Lesbos, where the kisses are like cascades
That throw themselves boldly into bottomless chasms
And flow, sobbing and gurgling intermittently,
Stormy and secret, teeming and profound;
Lesbos, where the kisses are like cascades!
Lesbos, where courtesans feel drawn toward each other,
Where for every sigh there is an answering sigh,
The stars admire you as much as Paphos,
And Venus may rightly be jealous of Sappho!
Lesbos, where courtesans feel drawn toward each other,
Lesbos, land of hot and languorous nights,
That make the hollow-eyed girls, amorous
Of their own bodies, caress before their mirrors
The ripe fruits of their nubility, O sterile pleasure!
Lesbos, land of hot and languorous nights...
Illustrations from Condemned Poems illustrated by May Den Engelsen, published 1927
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