The Zone, 1882–1883

Georges Seurat :: The Zone (Outside the City Walls), 1882–83. Black ‘Conté’ crayon on cream laid paper. Seurat created the majority of his drawings with a greasy, medium-hard black crayon called Conté on thick Michallet paper with a pronounced texture. | src Chicago Art Institute

La creación de las aves, 1957

Remedios Varo ~ La creación de las aves, 1957. Oil on canvas | src MAMM
Remedios Varo ~ Sin título (Bosquejo de la Creación de las aves, 1957) | src MAM ~ Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico)
Remedios Varo ~ La creación de las aves, 1957. Oil on canvas (DETAIL) | src MAMM

(anthropomorphic) Figure, 1928

Cadavre Exquis [André Breton, Max Morise, Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy, Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert] :: Figure, 1928. Collaborative collage made stacking found printed images of mundane objects (*) in an anthropomorphic figure. | src MoMA
(*) The presence of the umbrella recalls a phrase the Surrealists adopted from the poet Comte de Lautréamont (born Isidore Ducasse) as an ideal description of the principle of juxtaposition: “As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.” [quoted from source]

3 diptychs by Navarre, 2016

Marie Navarre :: silent language, 2016, rag paper, digital vellum, digital rag paper, silk thread.
Marie Navarre :: season of longing, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread.
Marie Navarre :: as light passes through us, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread. | source: Lisa Sette Gallery

Marie Navarre, 2010-2016

all artworks by Marie Navarre (source: Lisa Sette Gallery)
1- learn from the pine (from Basho), 2016, rag paper, Japanese washi, archival digital print on vellum, silk thread.
2- turning towards the light, 2016, rag paper, digital washi, digital vellum, silk thread.
3- No here, no there, 2010, film, mulberry paper, rag paper, silk thread.
4- Songs and cries, 2010, film, Gampi, rag paper, silk thread, antique book pages, archival inkjet prints.
5- breathing the in between, 2010, digital vellum, silk thread, handmade Japanese paper.

Remedios Varo y la máscara, 1956

Kati Horna ~ Remedios Varo y la máscara, 1956. Remedios Varo, posing with a mask by Leonora Carrington | src Morton Subastas
Kati Horna ~ Portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum
Kati Horna (1912-2000) ~ Remedios Varo with a mask made by Leonora Carrington, Mexico, 1957 | src NYBooks
Kati Horna ~ Surreal portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum