Édouard Chimot (1880 -1959) ~ illustration for Maurice Magre, 1920.

I do not know whether there are people who escape despair, and if there are, I believe that they are not very numerous. I do not envy those people. There is in despair a bitter substance, a fecund poison, the seed of a superior virtue that one cannot find elsewhere. Everyone, sooner or later, ought to aspire to the juice of the hemlock that gives wings, the sacred belladonna. But it is necessary to be able to drink the poison and not die.

-Maurice Magre

Maurice Dumont (1869 - 1899) ~ Death and the Guillotine, lithograph, 1893.

Suzanne Ballivet (1904 - 1985) ~ illustrations for the adventures of King Pausolus by Pierre LOUYS 1927

Félicien Rops (1833 – 1898) ~ The Satyrion nurse, engraving, date unknown.

Leonor Fini (1907 - 1996) ~ Kiss, lithograph, 1966.

Armand Rassenfosse ( 1862 – 1934) ~ The call of the faunesse, aquatint, 1892

Arthur Illes (1870-1953) ~ The water Sprite/ water elf, pastel on paper, date unknown,

Eugène Berman (1899 - 1972) ~ Head of Medusa, oil on board, 1968.

Adriana Darù ~ Head of Medusa, Black and brown pencil on paper, 1928.

Costume design for Turandot, tempera on black paper, 20th Century, artist unknown.

Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) ~ Winter, oil on canvas , 1933.

Christian Ferdinand Hartmann (1774–1842) ~ Death with a Host of Demons, Pen, black ink, brush and watercolour over graphite on paper, date unknown.