Ingrid Bergman

The actress Ingrid Bergman in Stromboli directed by Roberto Rossellini in 1950

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt. Seated half naked woman with a scarf 1916-1917. Watercolor, pencil and white gouache on paper

Gjon Mili

Gjon Mili. Double exposure of a veiled model wearing a hat 1946

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch. Salome 1903

Emery P. Reves-Biro

Emery P. Reves-Biro. Hands 1930-1939

Emery P. Reves-Biro

Emery P. Reves-Biro. The actress Hedy Lamarr 1940

Emery P. Reves-Biro

Emery P. Reves-Biro. Portrait in a mirror 1940

Emery P. Reves-Biro

Emery P. Reves-Biro. Lipstick advertisement 1950-1959

Emery P. Reves-Biro

Emery P. Reves-Biro. Untitled 1940-1949. Optigram

Emery P. Reves-Biro

Emery P. Reves-Biro. Untitled 1940-1949

Emery P. Reves-Biro

Emery P. Reves-Biro. Untitled 1950. Optigram

Man Ray

Man Ray. Portrait of Juliet 1948

Jean d’Ormesson

« I love you in time. I will love you until the end of time. And when time is over, then I will have loved you. And nothing of this love, like nothing that has been, can ever be erased. » (Jean d’Ormesson)

Alphonse de Lamartine

« One day, jealous time, with icy breath,
Will fade your colors like a faded flower
On these beds of grass;
And its hand will wither on your charming lips
Those quick kisses, alas! from which you wean me
In their fresh season.
But when your eyes, veiled by a cloud of tears,
Of those days gone by that have robbed you of your charms
Will weep the harshness;
When in your memory, in the wave of the shore
You will seek in vain your ravishing image,
Look into my heart!
There your beauty blooms for countless centuries;
There your sweet memory watches forever over the shadow
Of my fidelity,
Like a golden lamp that a holy virgin
Protects with her hand, crossing the enclosure,
The trembling light.
And when death comes, followed by another love,
Smilingly extinguish our double life
Both torch,
May she spread my bed next to yours,
And may your faithful hand still embrace mine
In the bed of the tomb.
Or rather may we pass over this earth,
As one sees in autumn a solitary couple
Of swans in love
Leaving, embracing, from the nest that brings them together,
And towards the sweet climates that they will seek together
Flying away two by two. » (Alphonse de Lamartine)

Leni Riefenstahl

From Olympia directed by Leni Riefenstahl in 1936

Louise Brooks

The actress Louise Brooks 1920s

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Yvonne, Koko et Bibi,  Royan, juillet 1924

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Simone Roussel 1913. Autochrome

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Renée Perle Juan-Les-Pins 1931

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. L’ombre et le reflet, Bibi 1927

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. L’ombre et le reflet, Bibi 1927

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch. Seated woman 1896

Louise Brooks

The actress Louise Brooks 1928

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch. Woman with poppies 1918

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch. The sick child 1896

Martha Graham

The dancer Martha Graham in Heriodiade 1944

Soichi Sunami

Soichi Sunami. The dancer Martha Graham

Jacques Prévert

« Denial of God denial of the devil
incapable of being guilty
you are beautiful
undeniable
You are beautiful like the sea and the earth
before human proliferation
And yet you are a woman
You are beautiful like the wind that cannot be seen
beautiful like the morning and the evening
You are beautiful and you are not the only one
You are beautiful among the beauties but in the swarm of beauties you are not the star
You are one of them
mine
and yet you do not belong to me
But you are the only desert island where I could live with you. »
(Jacques Prévert)

Herta Moselsio

Herta Moselsio. The dancer Martha Graham in Lamentation 1939

Martha Graham

The dancer Martha Graham in Lamentation

Herta Moselsio

Herta Moselsio. The dancer Martha Graham in Lamentation 1939

Martha Graham

The dancer Martha Graham in Night journey

Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Man Ray. The actress and singer Suzy Solidor 1930

Gjon Mili

Gjon Mili. Multiple exposures of the dancer Alicia Alonso 1944

Katie Eleanor

Katie Eleanor. Lovers (Vampires). Tribute to Edvard Munch

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Miss Europe 1949

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Nude study 1938

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Untitled 1950

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Untitled 1935

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Nude study 1935

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Rome 1935

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Fashion model 1938

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Nude study 1939

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Nude study 1940

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Nude woman with crossed hands 1938

Elio Luxardo

Elio Luxardo. Ballerina 1935-1940

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Couple embracing 1914

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Double nude 1930

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Dancer 1927

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Untitled 1932-1933

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Untitled 1932-1933

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Two dancers intertwited 1932

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Female swimmer 1932

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Woman having a break after physical exercises 1933

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Woman javelin thrower 1933

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Nude female swimmer 1933

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Woman doing physical exercise in outdoor 1935

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Untitled 1930

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Woman in carnival costume 1934

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Untitled 1945

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. Nude study 1935

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Friedrich Seidenstücker. The actress Ilka Dieball as Diana 1927

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. The artist’s mother 1911

Dolores del Rio

The actress Dolores del Rio in Flying to Rio 1933

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Norma Shearer 1924

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Norma Shearer 1924

Ruth Harriet Louise

Ruth Harriet Louise. The actress Norma Shearer 1928

Ruth Harriet Louise

Ruth Harriet Louise. The actress Norma Shearer 1931

Germaine Krull

Germaine Krull. From the Friends serie 1924

Kati Horna

Kati Horna. Stairway to the cathedral 1938

Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian. Composition 8 1914

Christian Schad

Christian Schad. Iris garden 1968

Christian Schad

Christian Schad. Sonja 1928

Dolores Costello

The actress Dolores Costello 1920s

« This is my freedom,
This is my voice,
My piece of venom,
My blind eyed choice.
These are my movements,
These are my arms,
This is my trumpet,
These are my drums, drums, drums
Let me go, Let me go,
Let me go, let me go.
This is my moment,
Again and again,
I’m not in existence,
I have never been.
I am my future,
I’m on my way,
For ever, for ever,
Lets play, lets play, play, play.
Let me go, let me go,
Let me go, let me go. »

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Nude woman sitting on an orange clothe 1914

Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler. The dream 1897-1903. Watercolor

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso. Black figure 1948

Germaine Krull

Germaine Krull. Seated woman 1930

Germaine Krull

Germaine Krull. Kneeling woman 1930

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt. Isis(detail) 1891

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Mother and two children 1917

Guillaume Apollinaire

« In the very deep lake of your eyes
My poor heart drowns and melts
There it undoes
In the water of love and madness
Memory and Melancholy »
(Guillaume Apollinaire, Poems to Lou 1914)

The actors Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift

The Guardian. Hollywood Cemetery

Josep Masana

Josep Masana. Untitled 1920-1940

Antonin Artaud

« When will we meet again?
When will the earthy taste of your lips once again brush against the anxiety of my mind?
The earth is like a whirlwind of mortal lips.
Life digs before us the abyss of all the caresses that have been lacking. What do we have to do with this angel who has not been able to show himself? Will all our sensations be forever intellectual, and will our dreams not manage to catch fire on a soul whose emotion will help us die. What is this death where we are forever alone, where love does not show us the way? » (Antonin Artaud
Art and Death, 1929)

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Gerti Schiele 1910

Gif by Bill Domonkos

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. Striped stockings 1959. Oil on canvas

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer. The doll 1934-1935

Vassily Kandinsky

Vassily Kandinsky. Far away 1930

Vassily Kandinsky

Vassily Kandinsky. Blue 1927

Baron Adolph de Meyer

Baron Adolph de Meyer. Multiple exposures of a model, Harper’s Bazaar 1928

Baron Adolph de Meyer. Multiple exposures of a model, Harper’s Bazaar 1928

Vassily Kandinsky

Vassily Kandinsky. Ending 1926

Vassily Kandinsky

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