Category: illustration, dessin, drawing, etching, drypoint, aquatint, gouache, watercolor, Zeichnung, Entwurf, disegno, illustrazione

Mileva Stoisavlievic’s women

Mileva Roller (Mileva Stoisavlievic: 1886 – 1949) :: Standing Woman. Woodcut on lightweight off-white Japan paper. No watermark. | src Shepherd Gallery
Mileva Stoisavlievic :: Two Intertwined Female Figures. Woodcut on lightweight off-white Japan paper. | src Shepherd Gallery
Mileva Stoisavlievic :: Reclining Woman. Woodcut on lightweight off-white Japan paper. No watermark. | src Shepherd Gallery

Lépidoptérologie comparée, 1904

Lepidoptera. Études de lépidoptérologie comparée by Charles Oberthür (1845-1924). Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Rennes : Impr. Oberthür. | src Smithsonian Libraries on IA
Lepidoptera. Études de lépidoptérologie comparée by Charles Oberthür (1845-1924). Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Rennes : Impr. Oberthür. | src Smithsonian Libraries on IA
Lepidoptera. Études de lépidoptérologie comparée by Charles Oberthür (1845-1924). Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Rennes : Impr. Oberthür. | src Smithsonian Libraries on IA
Lepidoptera. Études de lépidoptérologie comparée by Charles Oberthür (1845-1924). Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Rennes : Impr. Oberthür. | src Smithsonian Libraries on IA

Background sketch for Dårhuset

Nils Dardels fondskiss till Dårhuset av Svenska Baletten, 1920, foto: Torkel Edenborg. | Nils Dardel's background sketch for Madhouse by the Swedish Ballet, 1920, photo: Torkel Edenborg. • src Dansmuseet's IG
Nils Dardels fondskiss till Dårhuset av Svenska Baletten, 1920, foto: Torkel Edenborg. | Nils Dardel’s background sketch for Madhouse by the Swedish Ballet, 1920 • src Dansmuseet on IG
Dårhuset av Svenska Baletten, ca. 1920 | Madhouse by the Swedish Ballet, ca. 1920 "Om ni inte gillar det kan ni dra åt helvete" | "If you do not like it, you can go to hell" – Ballets Suédois 1920–1925 • src Dansmuseet
Dårhuset av Svenska Baletten, ca. 1920 | Madhouse (also, Nut-house) by the Swedish Ballet, ca. 1920
“Om ni inte gillar det kan ni dra åt helvete” | “If you do not like it, you can go to hell” – Ballets Suédois 1920–1925 • src Dansmuseet

L’Atlantide (1921)

Poster for the French silent film L’Atlantide (aka Missing Husbands, Lost Atlantis), directed by Jacques Feyder, starring Stacia Napierkowska as Queen Antinea (1921). Poster design by Manuel Orazi. | src IMdB
Poster for the French silent film L’Atlantide (aka Missing Husbands, Lost Atlantis), directed by Jacques Feyder, starring Stacia Napierkowska as Queen Antinea (1921). Poster design by Manuel Orazi. | src IMdB

Melancholy, Pain, Resignation

Alfredo Baruffi :: La Melanconia, Il Dolore, La Rassegnazione. | Melancholy, Pain ans Resignation, 1905. | src Italia Liberty on Google Arts & Culture
A. Baruffi :: La Melanconia, Il Dolore, La Rassegnazione. | src Italia Liberty on Google Arts & Culture

Opium (1919)

Opium, Robert Reinert, Germany, 1919. (Theo Matyko ’19) “This 1919 silent film was released during a lull in censorship restrictions after the first world war. Crowds lined up around the block for weeks to see its celebration of decadence and sexual liberty. The rare original poster is six feet tall.” | src The Guardian

La Syphilis (1910s)

Louis Raemaekers :: L’Hecatombe. La Syphilis. “An image meant to warn Belgian soldiers returning from the front of the dangers of ‘The French Pox’. It depicts a dangerous woman standing both seductively and menacingly in front of a field of graves.” | src The Guardian

Der Spiegel, 1907

Vassily Kandinsky :: Der Spiegel. The mirror; draped female figure holding up hand-mirror, 1907. Colour linocut, printed in mauve-red, green, blue, yellow and black, on oriental paper. | src The British Museum | Bibliographic references Roethel 1970 / Kandinsky, das graphische Werk (49)