Atelier Kolliner

Atelier Kolliner. The dancer Mila Cirul in Rustic dance 1925

Mila Cirul

The dancer Mila Cirul 1920s

Trude Fleischmann

Trude Fleischmann. The dancer Mila Cirul 1925

Trude Fleischmann

Trude Fleischmann. The dancer Mila Cirul 1927

Mila Cirul

The dancer Mila Cirul 1930s

Mila Cirul

The dancer Mila Cirul 1925

Lillian Gish

The actress Lillian Gish 1920s

The actress Lillian Gish 1920s

Lillian Gish

The actress Lillian Gish 1920s

Dolores Costello

The actress Dolores Costello 1920s

Charles Gates Sheldon

Charles Gates Sheldon. The actress Dolores Costello 1920s

Charles Gates Sheldon. The actress Dolores Costello 1920s

Charles Gates Sheldon. The actress Dolores Costello 1920s

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen. The actress Maureen O’sullivan 1930

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Seated nude woman 1911

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Prenatal education 1954

Magnus Weidemann

Magnus Weidemann. Women among flowers 1929

Magnus Weidemann

Magnus Weidemann. Nude study 1920s

Wilhelm von Gloeden

Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931). Nude study 1890

Victor Hugo

“There are often more shipwrecked things at the bottom of a soul than at the bottom of the sea.” (Victor Hugo)

Magnus Weidemann

Magnus Weidemann. Untitled 1920s

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. The actress and singer Line Viala 1934

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. The actress and singer Line Viala 1934

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. The actress and singer Line Viala 1934

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. The actress and singer Line Viala 1934

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. The actress and singer Line Viala 1934

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. Nu à la coquille 1934

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. Nu aux jacinthes 1930

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. Femme au bord de la mer 1933

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. Reclining woman 1932

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. Woman by the sea 1933

Florence Henri

Florence Henri. Woman with towel 1933

Hedda Sterne

Hedda Sterne. Machine vermillon 1952

Hedda Sterne

Hedda Sterne. Machine 5 1950

Jeanne Mandello

Jeanne Mandello. Self-portrait 1942

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun. IOU à Aveux non avenus 1930

Jeanne Mandello

Jeanne Mandello. The dancer Sunny Lorenczi 1946

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Gertrud Schiele seated 1910

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Head of a woman 1908

Hedda Sterne

Hedda Sterne. Surrealist composition 1938. Collage and pencil on paper

Franz Falckenhaus

Franz Falckenhaus. Puppen see. Collage

Wols

Wols. Nicole Boubant 1933

Wols

Wols. Nicole Boubant 1933

Wols

Wols. Sabine Hettner 1933

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La mitrailleuse en état de grâce 1934

Hans Richter

Hans Richter. Film study 1926

Wols

“Time is at the beginning and at the end of every human life, and each man has his time, his different time.”(Wols)

Wols

Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze). Untitled 1944

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1935

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La toupie bronze peinte 1938

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Portrait of Max Ernst 1939

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1935

Wols

Wols (1913-1951). Germaine Demewe, back view

Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch. English dancer 1928

André Breton

“Beauty will be convulsive or else will not be.” (André Breton)

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1936

Lazar Markovitch Lissitzky

Lazar Markovitch Lissitzky. Untitled 1923

Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch. Blocked 1967. Collage

Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch. Open to me this door that I found crying in the dark 1935

Egon Schiele

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)