Lee Ufan - Correspondance, 2003.
Pigment and oil on canvas.
Franz von Stuck - Portrait of the Artist’s daughter Mary in a Vélazquez Costume, 1908.
Carlo Canevari (1922 - 1996) - Nuns Waiting at a Crossing, n.d.
Andre Masson - Armour, 1925.
Valentine Hugo - Spirit of the Sunflower, 1934.
… from SURREALISM: desire unbound, edited by Jennifer Mundy, Princeton University Press, 2011.
Hans Bellmer - Portrait of Nora Mitrani, late 1940s.
Reversibility, numbers, permutations, algebra, unconfessed emotional constants. But the body undressed in the sights of love, but the woman without her image ignore them. Should Bellmer encounter them in his games and anatomical constructions, he simultaneously contradicts:
— Nature: not the supple and hot child of desire, but the blind, utilitarian brute; he reinvents it back to front, according to the laws of a constructed and calculated marvellous
— Geometry: not its rigour, but the rational and commercial uses of this rigour; he condemns it to renounce the uncertainties of love
— And love itself: not the pathetic aspect of hopeless love, but its defense mechanisms, the continual temptations of escape; he compels it … to recompose itself, from the provocative sham of ‘being the target’ to the real, tangible anatomical image of tenderness, burning with impossibility.
Nora Mitrani, Rose with the Violet Heart (Rose au cœur violet), 1947.
… from SURREALISM: desire unbound, edited by Jennifer Mundy, Princeton University Press, 2011.
Norman Lindsay - Courtesan Water Colour. Model for Courtesan. & Courtesan, c1922.
… via Etching House
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Konrad Klapheck - Die Frühreife (Precocious Girl), 1959.
… via Christie’s
Maurice Musin (b.1939) - Couple au masque bleu.
… via Auction in Europe
Jean Auscher - Le Bal Noir, c1925.
… via Live Auctioneers
Gustave Moreau - Outline for the painting Jupiter and Sémélé, c1890s.
… via rmn
Henri Thomas - Danseuse de corde, c1913.
… via rmn
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Fernand Cormon - Portrait of soprano Marcelle Demougeot (Jeanne Marguerite Marcelle Decorne) as Elisabeth from the opera Tannhäuser, 1914.
… via rmn
