Vassily Kandinsky

Vassily Kandinsky. Ending 1926

Vassily Kandinsky

Vassily Kandinsky. Project for an armchair. Gouache on paper 1943

Baron Adolph de Meyer

Baron Adolph de Meyer. Ballet’s dancer 1900s

Guy de Maupassant

Are you in love?

  • « No, she troubles me, seduces me and worries me, attracts me and frightens me.
    I am wary of her like a trap, and I want her like a sorbet when you are thirsty. I am subject to her charm. I feel in contact with an abnormal being, outside the natural rules, exquisite or detestable, I do not know.
  • I tell you that you are in love.
  • It is possible after all. She worries me a lot.. I think about her too much, I think about her when I fall asleep and also when I wake up, it is quite serious.
  • Her image follows me, pursues me constantly always in front. » (Guy de Maupassant)

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Masturbating woman 1910

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau. The lovers, Opera, Paris 1950

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau. Love during the occupation 1942-1944

Saint John of the Cross

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« In that happy night,
I stood in secret, no one saw me,
and I saw nothing to guide me,
except the light that burned in my heart. » (Saint John of the Cross)

Edwin Bower Hesser

Edwin Bower Hesser. The actress Jean Harlow 1929

Julio Cortazar

« You see
I keep thinking about you
and I don’t write to you
suddenly I look at the sky
that passing cloud
and maybe you in your waterfront
you will look at a cloud
and that is my letter
something flowing indecipherable. »(Julio Cortazar)

Lauren Bacall

The actress Lauren Bacall in To have and have not directed by Howard Hawks in 1964

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen. Close up of a model’s hands, Vogue 1925

Edward Steichen. Close up of a model’s hands, Vogue 1925

Albert Marquet

Albert Marquet. The blond woman 1919

Albert Marquet

Albert Marquet. Nude reading standing 1913

Albert Marquet

Albert Marquet. Nude on the red sofa 1913

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Transfert des sens 1950

Hans Bellmer. Transfert des sens 1950

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Désarticulation sur fond rayé 1958

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1970

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1934

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1936

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1936

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1942-1945

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. The doll 1935

Elizabeth Taylor

The actress Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly last summer

André Masson

André Masson. The earth 1939

André Masson. The earth 1939

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Descending nude 1956. Oil on canvas

DantéBéa

« I can share the integrity of my soul, but never ask me to be your compromise doll. I have too much radical passion inside me. » (DantéBéa)

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Study for the doll’s games 1938

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1943

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1953. Ink, gouache and pencil on paper

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. The pregnant doll 1937

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Study for The doll

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Scéne érotique 1980

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Scéne érotique 1980

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Organes génitaux rouges 1946

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. L’assiette

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La croix gamahuchée 1946

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La bicyclette 1946

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Le cube 1944

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Vienna Workshop’s postcard, undated

Ernest Legouvé

« Love is like the year, its most beautiful season is its spring.
All is still promises and flowers. » (Ernest Legouvé)

Josef Breitenbach

Josef Breitenbach. Electric back 1949

Josef Breitenbach. Electric back 1949

Josef Breitenbach

Josef Breitenbach. Patricia 1942

Josef Breitenbach

Josef Breitenbach. Annabella 1935

Josef Breitenbach

Josef Breitenbach. Bird 1948. Photogram

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1910

Karl Schenker

Karl Schenker. The actress Erna Morena 1914

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

« And I know of a rose that is unique in the world, which exists nowhere else except on my planet. »(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman in a green shirt 1913

Albert Camus

« My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that…In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. »(Albert Camus)

Paul Klee

Tribute to All the souls from Paul Klee

Alain Duault

« It may not be too late we must still try
To live pushes aside the threads of the rain the wild wind
Comes like a horse that gets up what a beauty
You have probably crumpled the river but everything flows
Since the black waters of childhood

Your sorrow
Your rage you must throw everything in the sewers and bathe
Naked in the leaves of the sky wrapped in clouds
You must fly like an angel laugh sing and laugh
Pass through all the rooms write a poem
That you will read on all the roads in all the beds
A poem that gives a thousand lives Don’t give up
Hope

An abandonment is a tree that dies. « (Alain Duault)

Paul Klee

Paul Klee. The path into the blue 1934

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Pregnant woman 1910

H. Armstrong Roberts

H. Armstrong Roberts. Woman lying with head down 1920s

« One night I fall asleep with him
Though I know we aren’t allowed to
And I feel the fever burning inside me
Without having a shadow of remorse
And the dawn brings me to sleep
I do not want the sun to come

When I hold his head in my hands
I swear to you I feel sadness
And I wonder
If this love will have a tomorrow
When I’m away from him
When I’m away from him
I’ve lost my mind a little

And I’m no longer from here
Oh! I’m no longer from here
I feel the rain from another planet from another planet
When he hugs me close against him
When I feel that I fit in his life

I pray for fate to pull me through
I pray for the devil to take me
And anxiety turns its face towards me
And makes me speak its language

But when I hold his head in my hands
I swear to you I feel sadness
And I wonder
If this love will have a tomorrow
When I’m away from him
When I’m away from him

I’ve lost my mind a little
And I’m no longer from here. No I’m no longer from here
I feel the rain from another planet from another planet.  » (Véronique Sanson)

H. Armstrong Roberts

H. Armstrong Roberts. Sunset silhouette 1920s

François de La Rochefoucauld

« The grace of novelty is to love what the flower is to fruit: it gives it a luster that fades easily and never returns. » (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Unidentified photographer

Unidentified photographer. Reclining woman smoking 1870-1890

Unidentified photographer

Unidentified photographer. Seated nude woman smoking 1920s

Unidentified photographer

Unidentified photographer. Woman smoking 1920s

Alexander Binder

Alexander Binder. The actress Marcella Albani holding a cigarette 1927

Georgia Lind

The actress Georgia Lind smoking 1928

Nadejda de Braganza

Nadejda de Braganza holding a long cigarette holder 1929

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman with a grey shirt 1913

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Female torso, back view 1913

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. Reclining maja 1920-1940. Flexichrome

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. Seated maja 1920-1940. Flexichrome

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. Untitled 1920s

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. Salomé 1920-1940

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. Untitled 1920-1940

Josep Masana. Untitled 1920-1940

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. Sinkhole 1920s

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. The actress Rosita Rodrigo

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. Woman in front of the mirror 1920-1940

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Standing woman in striped stockings 1913

Romy Schneider

The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964

The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964

Annabelle Guetatra

Annabelle Guetatra. Red tears 2021. Serie Despite the night

Alla Nazimova

The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923

The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923

The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923

Vincenzo Galdi

Vincenzo Galdi. Nude with flowers 1900s

Rita Hayworth

Paul Verlaine

« I often have this strange and penetrating dream
Of an unknown woman, whom I love, and who loves me
And who is, each time, neither quite the same
Nor quite another, and loves me and understands me. » (Paul Verlaine)

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Young girl sitting with a bow in her hair 1917

Marcel Meys

Marcel Meys. Nude with bunch of grapes 1910

Marcel Meys

Marcel Meys. Young woman playing the flute 1915. Autochrome

Marcel Meys. Young woman in a field 1915. Autochrome

Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

“The supreme seduction is not to express one’s feelings. It is to make one suspect them.” (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly)

Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

The actress Leni Riefenstahl in Der heilige berg (Sacred mountain) directed by Arnold Fanck in 1926

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Mother and child 1910

Salvador Dali

“The bloody osmoses of dream and love occupy the entire life of man.” (Salvador Dali)

Judith in den Bosch

Judith in den Bosch. Breaking the waves

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Portrait of the actress Marga Boerner 1917

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1910

Katie Eleanor

Katie Eleanor. Dear one becomes a tumour 2019

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1913

Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

« This melancholy that women have who have sought happiness and found only love. » (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly)

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Poldi Lodzinsky 1910

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Procession 1911

Arthur Rimbaud

« I was going away, my fists in my burst pockets;
My overcoat also became ideal;
I was going under the sky, Muse! and I was your faithful;
Oh! there! there! what splendid loves I have dreamed!

My only breeches had a large hole.

  • Little Tom Thumb dreamer, I was counting rhymes in my race. My inn was at the Grande-Ourse.
  • My stars in the sky had a soft rustle

And I listened to them, sitting at the edge of the roads,
Those good September evenings when I felt drops
Of dew on my forehead, like a wine of vigor;

Where, rhyming in the middle of fantastic shadows,
Like lyres, I pulled the elastics
Of my wounded shoes, one foot near my heart! » (Arthur Rimbaud)

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Reclining nude woman with red garters 1913

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Woman with dress up 1911