Egon Schiele. Woman bending over 1914
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Seated nude head on kneels 1910s
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Seated nude woman, back view 1910s
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Kneeling nude woman 1910s
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Seated nude woman 1910s
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Untitled 1910s
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Woman with fan 1910s
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen. The actress Merle Oberon 1935
Rabindranath Tagore
« I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain,
It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever. »(Rabindranath Tagore)
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Woman leaning forward 1910
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen. Nu au lilas 1936
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Étude pour Transfert des sens 1949
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Étude pour Transfert des sens 1949
Man Ray
Man Ray. Self-portrait 1933
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Sitting woman 1910s
Percy Smith
Percy Smith. Birth of a Flower 1910
Photographe non identifié
Photographe non identifié. Jeune femme aux fleurs 1900s. Autochrome
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. The half doll 1971
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Les anagrammes du corps 1973
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Deux jeunes filles qui se confondent. Dessin, collage de papier 1938
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Self-portrait
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Le chapeau-main 1947
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Sans titre
Arnold Genthe
Arnold Genthe. Miss Solveig Hornbeck 1917
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. The gift 1910s
Paul Auster
“Love is the only force that can stop a man in his fall, the only force that is powerful enough to deny the laws of gravity.” (Paul Auster)
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall. Bouquet of carnations for lovers in green 1950
Arnold Genthe
Arnold Genthe. The dancers Beatrice Wanger and Solveig Hornbeck 1921
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Reclining woman 1910s
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau. The olympus 1920
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani. Venus 1918
Brice Homs
« On my lips you will come and drink
Like wolves at dawn
In the swirl of my black waters
I will hold you without return
On my stomach you will place
Your belly, wave on the wave
And in my arms you will sleep
As in its sheath the dagger
And at a time when wolves bite each other
In the off-white snow
We will be two words that agree
We will be two knotted ropes
On your skin I will make my way
Open mouth and closed mouth
Your lines I will follow them all
And I will learn them all
On your body I will take root
The sap is slow and takes its time
My gestures burn and calcine
Like lava from a volcano
And at a time when wolves bite each other
In the off-white snow
We will be two words that agree
We will be two knotted ropes
On your wings I will fly
Like the wind that carries high
A sky further, a sky after
From soft country to hot country
And at a time when wolves bite each other
In the off-white snow
We will be two words that agree
We will be two knotted ropes. »(Brice Homs)
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Seated woman 1910
Arnold Genthe
Arnold Genthe. Miss Solveig Hornbeck 1921
Arnold Genthe
Arnold Genthe. Miss Fontaine 1916
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch. Women on the beach 1898
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Female torso with black stockings 1917
Arnold Genthe
Arnold Genthe. Miss Solveig Hornbeck 1921
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. The actress and swimmer Annette Kellerman 1910
Vassily Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky. In the network 1927
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Étude de nu 1930
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Nude in the water 1941
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Future present 1927
Pablo Neruda
« I go, surfing my only wave,
lunar, solar, fiery and cold, sudden,
asleep in the throats of the fortunate islands white and soft like fresh hips.
My habit of kisses trembles in the humid night madly agitated with electric discharges, the intoxication of the rose in me unfolded.
Rising up the waters, in the outer waves, your twin body which submits in my arms like an endless fish stuck to my soul. « (Pablo Neruda)
Elias Goldensky
Elias Goldensky. Untitled 1910s
Martin Munkacsi
Martin Munkacsi. The dancer Gerda Juré 1930
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Nu sur la plage 1940
Frédéric Beigbeder
« I think of you all the time. I think of you in the morning, while walking in the cold. I purposely walk slowly so that I can think of you longer. I think of you in the evening, when I miss you among the parties, where I get drunk to think of something other than you, with the opposite effect. I think of you when I see you and also when I don’t see you. I would love to do something other than think about you. but I can’t do it. If you know a trick to forget yourself, let me know. » (Frédéric Beigbeder)
Annette Kellerman
The swimmer, actress and dancer Annette Kellerman
Mary E. Watts
Mary E. Watts. The water spirit 1937
Alfred de Musset
« Farewell! I believe that in this life
I will never see you again.
God passes, he calls you and forgets me;
By losing you I feel that I loved you.
No crying, no vain complaints.
I know how to respect the future.
Come the sail that takes you,
Smiling I will see it leave.
You leave full of hope,
With pride you will return;
But those who will suffer from your absence,
You won’t recognize them.
Farewell ! you are going to have a beautiful dream
And get drunk with dangerous pleasure;
On your path the rising star
It will dazzle your eyes for a long time to come.
One day you might feel
The price of a heart that understands us,
The good that comes from knowing it,
And what we suffer when we lose it. »
(Alfred de Musset)
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Symbiosis 1939
Erwin Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld. Papa 1920
André Breton, Nush Éluard, Paul Éluard
André Breton, Nush Éluard, Paul Éluard. Cadavres exquis 1929
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Standing nude with raised arms 1918
Jean Moral
Jean Moral. Visage 1930. Photomontage
Jean Moral
Jean Moral. Juliette avec un galet sur la tête 1933
Toyen
Toyen(Marie Cerminova). Le puits dans la tour 1967
Toyen
Toyen(Marie Cerminova). Untitled 1933
Toyen
Toyen (Marie Cerminova). The smile 1967. Photomontage
Toyen
Toyen(Marie Cerminova). Untitled 1940
Toyen
Toyen(Marie Cerminova). Untitled 1967
Albert Camus
« Men must live and create. Live to tears. » (Albert Camus)
Elio Luxardo
Elio Luxardo. Nu au tissus 1940
Elio Luxardo
Elio Luxardo. Plongée 1937
Elio Luxardo
Elio Luxardo. Silhouette 1939
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Prisoner (Self-portrait) 1912
Anaïs Nin
« You can’t save people
you can only love them. » (Anais Nin)
Antoine van Dick
Antoine van Dick. Lady Dacre 1633 (detail)
Vlasta Delimar
Vlasta Delimar. Visual orgasm 1981
Mark Bugzester
©Mark Bugzester. Hand 2015
Meret Oppenheim
Meret Oppenheim. My nurse
Meret Oppenheim
Meret Oppenheim. Un parent éloigné 1966
Meret Oppenheim
Meret Oppenheim. Déjeuner en fourrure 1936
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Gerti 1910
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Standing girl in green pinafore 1910
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Reclining woman 1917
Percy Smith
Birth of a flower by Percy Smith 1910
Marcel Duchamp
Cover for the magazine « Le Surréalisme, même » which represents an inverted photograph of the molding of « Female fig leaf » from Marcel Duchamp 1956. Concave parts become convex and vice versa. Marcel Duchamp plays here with the male/female opposition, convex/concav
Vassily Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky. Untitled 1940
Cadavres exquis
Yves Tanguy, André Breton et Jacqueline Lamba. Cadavres exquis 1938
Ruth Harriet Louise
Ruth Harriet Louise. The actress Greta Garbo 1926
Unica Zürn
Unica Zürn. Le château d’eros 1956
Émile Zola
“Love is only permitted to mortal lovers whose kiss gives life.” (Emile Zola)
Franz von Stuck
Franz von Stuck. Mary von Stuck (daughter’s artist) with green ribbons 1905
Franz von Stuck
Franz von Stuck. Mary von Stuck (daughter’s artist) with green ribbons 1905
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2022
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Nakasora serie
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Nakasora serie
Cadavre exquis
Valentine Hugo, André Breton et Nush Éluard. Cadavre exquis 1931
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto. Tomosu serie 2023