Happy Vernal Equinox! Image : Jacques LeMoyne de Morgues (1533–1588) Young Daughter of the Picts, watercolour and gouache, touched with gold on parchment c1585

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) ... Untitled drawing, charcoal on paper 1937

Dolorosa de la Cruz... Grotesque for Hans Bellmer on his birthday, March 13th, 2017 ,watercolour and pencil on paper

Vitezslav Fleissig (1892 - 1955) ...Ex Libris 1930

Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950) ... illustration for Femmes by Paul Verlaine, woodcut 1917

Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950) ... illustration for Charles Baudelaires 'Les fleurs du mal', woodcut

Pavel Ivanov (Mak) (1891-1967) ... The Princess and the Phoenix, pen and ink , watercolours and gold ink on paper 1926

Pavel Ivanov (Mak) (1891-1967) ... The Sorceress, watercolour, goldpaint and pencil on paper 1926

Alberto Martini (1876 - 1954) ...Ex libris diablerie for Irene Dwen Pace 1949

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)... Ophelia, white marble 1880

Element 

They all swim in this

water

Fish

with big eyes

and sad mouths

swim around me

sad

without hands

holding hands

fish

in the water

in which I

drown

by Hilde Domin (1909 - 2006

Theodoor van Thulden (1606-1669)... Time Revealing Truth c1650

Jean Delville (1867-1953) ... Salons d'Art Idealiste, lithograph, 1896

Massimo Rao (1950-1996) .... the Centre of the World, 1988

Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011) ~ Study, mixed media drawing

Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011) ...The Magicians, coloured pencil drawing, unknown date

Book Plate , Isis writing the mysteries, from Magic history of the supernatural world and fatality through time and peoples by Pitois Christian 1870

Alberto Martini (1876-1954) ...The mirror and ghosts of fortune 1950

Victor-Jean Vincent Adam (1801-1866) ...S for Satan c 1830

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) ... Homage to Venus, pencil on paper 1942

ST Rita de Cascia...19th Spanish

Hildreth Meière (1892–1961) ~ Mercury gathering air waves amidst planets and stars ,Design for glass mural, drawing 1932

Mathilde Ade (1877-1953)... Ex Libris 1917

Josef Váchal (1884-1969)...Honour, watercolour 1945

Achille Devéria (1800-1857) ...Diabolico Foutro Manie, title page of a collection of erotic prints 1835

Leonora Carrington (1917- 2011) ...from a collection of 9 etchings with the title of Una Vida Surrealista

Henry Chapront (1876 - 1965) ... Illustrations for Baudelaire: Le voyage à Cythére

Ex Libris ~ for Elias Lieberman by EB, unknown date

André Pierre (1914-2005) ... Erzulie Freda Dahomey, painting on canvas,date unknown.

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) ... Woodland Spirit, ink and watercolour, unknown date

Alexandre de Riquer (1856 – 1920) ~ Death Song (Canto de la muerte), Pen and ink, ink wash and graphite pencil on paper c1890 (1856 – 1920) ~ Death Song (Canto de la muerte), Pen and ink, ink wash and graphite pencil on paper c1890

Armand Rassenfosse (1862-1934) ...Ex Libris

Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare (1731-1807) ... Teratology, manuscript, ink and pencil sketch 1775

Polish design for cigarettes packet label c1930s. artist unknown

St Anthony of Padua ...Polish folk woodcut c 1810/30

Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) ... Pink or green night, print, 1962

Wishing you all good health and good fortune for 2017! Thank you for visiting!

Rosa Rosenberg (1921-1979) ...Venus (Eva 69) oil on canvas

Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) ... Transfer of meaning, lithograph 1949

 "What is at stake here is a totally new unity of form, meaning and feeling: language-images that cannot simply be thought up or written up … They constitute new, multifaceted objects, resembling polyplanes made of mirrors … As if the illogical was relaxation, as if laughter was permitted while thinking, as if error was a way and chance, a proof of eternity.”