Myrna Loy

The actress Myrna Loy in the Barbarian directed by Sam Wood in 1933

Myrna Loy

The actress Myrna Loy in the Barbarian directed by Sam Wood in 1933

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Half-nude woman 1917

Charles Gates Sheldon

Charles Gates Sheldon. The actress Bette Davis 1934

Anton Giuglio Bragaglia

Anton Giulio Bragaglia. Sunbather 1920-1939

Anton Giulio Bragaglia

Anton Giulio Bragaglia. The designer Maria Monaci Gallenga 1915

Jean Delannoy

The actors Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais in L’éternel retour (The eternal return) directed by Jean Delannoy in 1943

Tristan and Iseut

« You speak the truth, Tristan. I feel like you that the spell has just ended. Our love remains, as you say, stronger than ever, but it has ceased to be a magical constraint, a force external to us, invincible and fatal. We are going to love each other now like other men and women since the world began; here we are brought back to the common condition of all mortals. We will henceforth be subject to the whims of chance, to the fluctuations of our desires, to all contrary movements, to all the repentances of our own wills. From there it comes that at this hour, without ceasing to love each other, we are at the point of conceiving the project of separating. » (Tristan and Iseut)

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. The actors Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais in L’éternel retour (The eternal return) directed by Jean Delannoy in 1943

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. The actress Madeleine Sologne in L’éternel retour directed by Jean Delannoy in 1943

L’éternel retour

The actors Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais in the Éternel retour directed by Jean Delannoy in 1943

Man Ray

Man Ray. Lee Miller and an unidentified woman 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. Lee Miller 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. Lee Miller 1930

Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton. Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury 1928

Cecil Beaton. Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury 1928

Hannah Frank

Hannah Frank. Moon ballet 1927

Hannah Frank

Hannah Frank. Night forms 1932

Martin Peter Gerlach

Martin Peter Gerlach. Tie woman 1913

Martin Peter Gerlach. Tie woman 1913

Ernst Förster

Ernst Förste. The actress Hilde Wagener with her dog 1920

Ernst Förster

Ernst Förster. Nude study 1920

Willy Kessel

Willy Kessel. Nude study 1940

Louis Camille d’Olivier

Louis Camille d’Olivier. Nude study 1855

Louis Camille d’Olivier

Louis Camille d’Olivier. Nude study 1855

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

« I wanted to bring you roses this morning;
But I had taken so many in my closed belts
That the knots were too tight and could not contain them.
The knots burst. The roses flew away
In the wind, to the sea, they all went away.
They followed the water never to return;
The wave seemed red and as if inflamed.
This evening, my dress is still all perfumed with them…
Breathe on me the fragrant memory of them… » (Marceline Desbordes-Valmore)

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Portrait of a woman 1900s

Hugo Höppener (Fidus)

Hugo Höppener (Fidus). The dome of light 1900s

Design of a colorful space art piece. In a dark purple domed room, the boundaries of which are not recognizable, a round tower rises in the middle from which emerges a huge electrically illuminated glass gemstone. A light elf has descended from above, carved from wood so as not to crush or scratch the glass. He embraces the stone and the light sparkles in color again on his golden wings painted in enamel. But in the dark circle sparkles a firmament of thousands of glass gemstones, whose rays refract differently with each movement of the viewer

Daniel Varoujan

« I love your sadness, which is also mine –
The pain of my pains, above all evils; I love your broken breast, where nevertheless your love
Sings again and again – a lark intoxicated with love. » (Daniel Varoujan)

Anonymous photographer

Anonymous photographer. Sea bath, Longeville, France, 1917. Autochrome

Federico Fellini

From La dolce vita directed by Federico Fellini in 1960

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun. Self-portrait with orchids 1939

Grete Wiesenthal

The dancer Grete Wiesenthal 1908

Welder Wings

Welder Wings. The origin 2018 (from a drawing of Hugo Höppener 1896)

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Reclining woman 1930

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Reclining woman 1945

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Standing women 1936

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Acrobatic dancer 1937

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Reclining nude 1937

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Woman wearing a bathing suit 1930

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Woman wearing a bathing suit 1937

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Nude study 1935

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Dancer 1940-1950

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Dancer 1940-1950

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Dancer 1940

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Geneviève Guillot 1920

Carlotta Corpron

Carlotta Corpron. Experimental photomontage 1940-1950

Carlotta Corpron

Carlotta Corpron. Chambered Nautilus with created light and chadow background 1945

Carlotta Corpron. Nautilus and concave mirror 1946

Carlotta Corpron. Space composition with chambered Nautilus 1948

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot. Nude study 1925

József Pécsi

József Pécsi. Nude seated dancer 1920s

Alexander Binder

Alexander Binder. The actress Marcella Albani 1920s

Alexander Binder. The actress Marcella Albani 1920s

József Pécsi

József Pécsi. Rozika Pécsi 1933

Anna de Noailles

« The beauty of the lover is only in the heart of the mistress. »
So it is I who give you an excessive welcome!
— Then, why this rare and precise slavery?
But my evil is sacred since fate wills it!
And it is my mad need as well as my wise need
To prefer to the world a single one of your hairs! » (Anna de Noailles)

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Daisy lady 1920s

Tereza de Davle

Tereza de Davle. Night butterfly 2011

Alexander Binder

Alexander Binder. The actress Greta Garbo 1920s

William McGregor Paxton

William McGregor Paxton. Study for Nausicaa 1933

Karl Grill

Karl Grill. Dancer in the triadic ballet from Oskar Schlemmer 1926

Karl Grill

Karl Grill. Dancers as the spiral in the triadic ballet from Oskar Schlemmer 1926

Karl Grill

Karl Grill. Dancer in the triadic ballet from Oskar Schlemmer 1926

Pierre Kéfer & Dora Maar

Pierre Kéfer & Dora Maar. Woman with soapy hair 1934

Karl Grill

Karl Grill. Daisy Spies as the spiral in the triadic ballet from Oskar Schlemmer 1926

Karl Grill

Karl Grill. Dancer in a triadic ballet costume from Oskar Schlemmer 1926-1927

Anonymous photographer

Anonymous photographer. Young girl standing by a rosebush, Paris 1920. Autochrome

Anonymous photographer

Anonymous photographer. Show girl 1920. Autochrome

Anonymous photographer

Anonymous photographer. The wood of the Payre, Vendée 1916. Autochrome

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Girl with sunflower 1910s. Autochrome

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Untitled 1908. Autochrome

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Untitled 1910. Autochrome

Richard Laillier

Richard Laillier. The Tree of Life 2025. Black stone and gesso on cardboard

Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld. Violettes de Montezin for Vogue 1938

Jean-Jacques Henner

Jean-Jacques Henner. La comtesse Kessler 1886

Jean-Jacques Henner. La comtesse Kessler 1886

Louis Aragon

« Give me your hands for worry
Give me your hands that I have dreamed of so much
That I have dreamed of so much in my solitude
Give me your hands that I may be saved

When I take them in my own trap
Of palm and fear of haste and emotion
When I take them like snow water
That leaks from everywhere in my hands

Will you ever know what goes through me
That upsets me and invades me
Will you ever know what pierces me
What I betrayed when I shuddered

What the deep language says thus
This mute speech of animal senses
Without mouth and without eyes mirror without image
This shudder of love that has no words

Will you ever know what the fingers think
Of a prey held between them for a moment
Will you ever know what their silence
A flash will have known of the unknown

Give me your hands that my heart forms there
The world is silent there at least for a moment
Give me your hands that my soul sleeps there
May my soul sleep there eternally. » (Louis Aragon)

Céline Laguarde

Céline Laguarde. Girl on beach with crabs 1909

Adolphe Braun

Adolphe Braun. Still life with flowers 1857

Adolphe Braun. Still life with flowers 1857

Eva Besnyo

Eva Besnyo. The actress Narda Vleming 1937 with a veil

Jean-Jacques Henner

Jean-Jacques Henner. Magdalena grieving 1885

Eva Besnyo

Eva Besnyo. Loeki 1940

Eva Besnyo

Eva Besnyo. Untitled 1932

Eva Besnyo

Eva Besnyo. Loeki 1940

Eva Besnyo

Eva Besnyo. The dancer Chaja Goldstein 1933

Eva Besnyo

Peter Weller. Eva Besnyo 1931

Eva Besnyo

Eva Besnyo. Paul Beck’s girlfriend 1932

Eva Besnyo

Eva Besnyo. The actress Narda Vleming 1937

Eva Besnyo. The actress Narda Vleming 1937

Eva Besnyo

Eva Besnyo. The actress Narda Vleming 1937

Eva Besnyo. The actress Narda Vleming 1937

Eva Besnyo. The actress Narda Vleming 1937

György Kepes 

György Kepes. Portrait of a woman 1938

Man Ray

Man Ray. Kiki de Montparnasse 1926

Man Ray. Kiki de Montparnasse 1926

Frantisek Vobecky

Frantisek Vobecky. Dance of love 1935-1938

Frantisek Vobecky

Frantisek Vobecky. The errant equestrienne 1936

Frantisek Vobecky

Frantisek Vobecky. Preludium 1936

Frantisek Vobecky

Frantisek Vobecky. Orchidea 1933

Marcel Meys

Marcel Meys. Sleeping cat 1900s. Autochrome

Marcel Meys

Marcel Meys. Woman at a table 1908. Autochrome

Nell Dorr

Nell Dorr. Double exposure of the actress Lillian Gish in a field 1950s

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Portrait of a woman smoking a cigarette 1890

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Reclining woman 1860

Jacques de Lalaing

Jacques de Lalaing. Study of a crouching woman 1903

Jacques de Lalaing

Jacques de Lalaing. Study of a crouching woman 1903

Jacques de Lalaing. Study of a crouching woman 1903

Jacques de Lalaing. Study of a crouching woman 1903

Jacques de Lalaing

Jacques de Lalaing. Back view of a crouching woman 1900

Jacques de Lalaing

Jacques de Lalaing. Study of a reclining woman on a tiger carpet 1900

Jacques de Lalaing

Jacques de Lalaing. Study of a standing nude woman 1900

Jacques de Lalaing. Study of a standing nude woman 1900

Jacques de Lalaing

Jacques de Lalaing. Nude study 1900

Jacques de Lalaing. Nude study 1900