Oskar Pafka (1896-1949) ...Femina Satanus - oil painting on plywood 1935

Wilhelm Laage (1868-1930) ...Final, woodcut 1899

The woodcut with its dark masses, with its "face" striving out of chaos to the light, simple, simple and yet immensely strong in the language, I needed, and jubilantly I clung to him as he said to me: "Take Me, I will help you to express what is raging and roaring within you. " Like a demon, he always stood before me and drove me to restless work. Soon I realized its value for my art. WL 1917

Born today... Erté, November 23, 1892, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... Le Triomphe de la femme, Eve, gouache on paper

Born today... Jose Clemente Orozco, 23 November 1883, Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico

image: detail from mural, Gods Of The Modern World - The Epic Of American Civilization, 1932-1934 Hanover, United States

Born today...John Wallis, November 23, 1616, Ashford, United Kingdom. Mathematician and cryptographer who introduce the infinity symbol in 1655 in his De sectionibus conicis. image: Pamela Colman Smith (1878 – 1951) illustration from the Waite Tarot

Mahlon Blaine (1894 – 1969)... The Spell, watercolour and ink

Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1882-1972)... Aquarius - study for the Signs of the Zodiac or ‘Gates of the Makara’, pencil and watercolour, 1949

Pieter Jalhea Furnius (1540ca - 1625)... Parable of the Sower, 1585

European Mannerist print ...16thc, Moon Goddess

Tyra Kleen (1874 - 1951) .. The phantom of the evanescence, lithograph,1907

Raoul Dal Molin Ferenzona (1879 -1946) ... Uriel, torch of God, 1943.

Urn with Human Figure, Zapotec, Monte Alban, Mexico 300BCE-200CE