Mimi Parent (1924-2005) ~ The Witch's door, oil and mixed media on plywood 1978

Jean Benoît ... C'est le Bouquet, collage 1994

Lilian Gourari... illustrations for an edition of the Marquis de Sade’s Misfortunes Of Virtue, 1947

Louis Châlon (1866-1916) ~ The dream of water , gouache on paper, 1899

Octave Denis Victor Guillonne (1872-1968) ~ Joan of Arc, pencil on paper 1913

Goddess Kali ~ Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India early 19thc

Paul Verlaine, Woman, erotic poems, private publishing translated by Lőrinc Szabó

Maximilian Pirner (1853 - 1924) ~ Homo homini lupus, watercolour on paper 1901

Jacques I Laudin ( 1627-1695) ~ Satan chained, enamel plate depicting a scene from the Apocalypse of Saint John, 1663

John Anster Fitzgerald (1832-1906) ~ Sea Sprites, oil on canvas date uknown

Shri Nrityalal Datta ~ Kali, woodblock print, ca 1860-1870, Calcutta.

André Masson 1896-1987 ~ illustration for Georges Bataille's The Story of the Eye 1928

John Paul Jones (1924 – 1999) ~ Night Lady, lithograph 1963

Mikoláš Aleš (1852-1913) ~ Libuše's Prophecy from the cycle ‘Praha’ 1904

Witches' Sabbath, Flemish Manuscript 15thc

Devotional woodcut, Resurrection of the Souls c1510.

Jan de Baen (1633 – 1702) (attributed to ) ~ The corpses of the De Witt brothers, oil on canvas, c. 1672 - c. 1675

The Whore of Babylon, detail from The World Divided unknown artist, etching 1614

Salomé , gouache, Symbolist School, monogrammed AF, c1900

Roland Topor (1938 – 1997) ~ Untitled illustration for Epikon 1977

Max Beckmann (1884-1950) ~ illustration, Faust 1943-45

The Sirens

You, to Helios consecrated,

You, with bright day's blessing freighted,

Greetings to this hour when

Luna's high worship rules again!

Richard Duschek (1884-1959) ~ Walpurgisnacht, Faust c 1945

Ludwig Gottlieb Karl Nauwerck (1772-1855) ~ Walpurgisnacht, Memphisto, Faust c1810

Richard Duschek (1884-1959) ~ Faust, The tragedy first part , Prologue in the skm illustration c1945

Dolorosa de la Cruz... Self portrait and anagram , Mask no 9 of 9 ( Absurd Chintzy Love ) ,pastel and pencil ~ 2013

Hand coloured Bookplate from Thérèse philosophe by Jean-Baptiste Boyer d'Argens (1703-1771) published 1773

Erich Godal (1899-1969) ~ Erotic drawings 1922

Imre von Santho (1900-1946) ( I de CHANTEAU.) ~ drawings for Arlequin et Colombine

Imre von Santho (1900-1946), under the pseudonym of J de CHANTEAU. A series of original drawings for an erotic alphabet. Budapest, c.1920s.

Paul MAK (1891-1967) ~ Pan, oil on panel 1955

James Ensor (1860-1949) ~ Devils thrilling Angels and Archangels, engraving and gouache 1888

Ex Libris... for Georg Bein, artist and date unknown

Ex Libris ~ R B, Gorgon/ Medusa Motto: Tibi Semper = Always to you, date unknown

Witch ~ Carnival poster, lithograph, 1890. Published by C. Burckardt, German, active late 19th century

Born today... George William Russell Æ, April 10, 1867, Lurgan, Northern Ireland

''Yet of my night I give you the stars,

And of my sorrow here the sweetest gains...''

image: George William Russell, Mystical figures

Kali Presents Demon Heads to Durga ~ Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Late 18th century

Louis Cattiaux (1904-1953) ~ DIVINITE, Oil on Canvas, date unknown

Édouard Chimot (1880 – 1959) ~ illustration for Les Fleurs du mal, 1941

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) ~ Pilgrim of the Sublunary World from Dreams, lithograph, 1891

On the satin back of the avalanche soft, 
She falls into lingering swoons, as she dies, 
While she lifteth her eyes to white visions aloft, 
Which like efflorescence float up to the skies. 
Charles Baudelaire, Tristesses de la lune from Fleurs du Mal

Born today...Charles Pierre Baudelaire, poet, April 9, 1821, Paris, France

The Spiritual Dawn

When upon revellers the stained dawn breaks 

The fierce ideal comes with it; at that hour, 

Stirred by some terrible avenging power, 

An angel in the sated brute awakes. 

Above the stricken, suffering man there glow 

Far azure plains of unimagined bliss 

Which draw his dreaming spirit like the abyss. 

O pure, beloved Goddess, even so 

O'er the smoked wrecks of stupid scenes of shame 

Brighter and rosier thy sweet memory 

Hovers before my wide eyes hauntingly...

The Sun has dimmed and charred the candles' flame, 

And thus, my glorious all-conquering one, 

Thy shade is peer to the immortal Sun

~ Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil

image: Carlo Farneti (1892-1961) illustration for Les Fleurs du Mal 1935

Marguerite Burnat-Provins (1872-1950) ~ Untitled, watercolour and goauche date unknown

Marguerite Burnat-Provins (1872-1952) ~ Lucifer, watercolour, date unknnown

Hymn to the Sun ~ Bhaskar Raga, Hindol Putra, Upper Punjab, Kangra, gouache on cardboard late eighteenth century.