Roland Topor (1938-1997)...Untitled, drawing ,illustration for Epikon 1977

Nemes Török János (1900-1980) ... Ex libris eroticis, woodcut

Joan Ponç (1927-1984 ) ...Angels, drawing, gouache, graphite pencil, pastel crayon and ink on paper 1951

Clara Siewert (1862-1945) ... The Apotheosis of a Witch (A Witch on Pegasus)

Viktor Schufinsky (1876-1947)...Mythical Creature with Red Heart, woodcut, 1914

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