Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Le Lion Amoureux

Nude with lion from The Fables of Fontaine. Antique engraving
Le Lion Amoureux (The Amorous Lion).
From the Fables of La Fontaine.
Félix Bracquemond after Gustave Moreau (1886).


  

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Cabaret Hell

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The amazing grotesque entrance to Cabaret de L'Enfer (Cabaret of Hell), Paris.
A French nightclub which operated from 1890s until the 1950s,
This image is dated around 1910.



   

Monday, June 8, 2020

Friday, May 29, 2020

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Hidden Garden

surreal original collage. Fine art print
'Hidden Garden' 
original collage by Opium of the Poets


'.. secrets much more beautiful
for not having been said
words not written
steps erased..'
Alice Paalen




Tuesday, May 5, 2020

The Bat Woman

Victorian vampire painting. Gothic female nude. Bat Woman. Fine art print
La Femme Chauve-Souris (The Bat Woman) by Albert Joseph Pénot
(1890)


'Dream is like a second life. Never have I been able to pass without a shudder through those gates of ivory or horn which divide us from the invisible world... '
Gerard de Nerval (Aurelia) 


  

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Nijinsky

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Vaslav Nijinsky,
from the Ballets Russe production of Le Spectre de la Rose. (c.1911).