J. Danguy ...Le Château de la mort, lithograph 1895

Martin Van Maele ... etching for Gustave Drozs' Summer in the country c1920

Nicolaï Kalmakoff (1873 -1955)... The Coronation from "The gates of paradise, Hell" 1926

Lucien COUTAUD (1904 -1977) ...Hommage à Raymond Roussel, 1944

Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977) ... Centaur and Siren sketch, 1933

Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977) ~ Centaur and Siren sketch, part of a letter sent to Isabelle Kloucowski 1933 gouache on paper

Albert Guillaume... The Devil in the 19thc or the Mysteries of Spiritualism by Dr. Bataille 1890-1900

Pierre Molinier...White Satin, God's Eye, 1940

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

Dolorosa de la Cruz... Collage work 2015

...you lie frozen in the shadow of my night~ Elemental Passions, collage 2015

Miniature, The Frenzy of Kali, Pahari, Late 19th C.

 

Harald Friedrich... The Aquarius, c. 1900

Oil painting of the German painter Harald Friedrich, the grandson and last direct descendant of Caspar David Friedrich

 

 

 

 

Louise Janin (1893 -1997)... Atlantis or the coronation of water and fire 1951