

images that haunt us











Erté (Romain De Tirtoff, Russian/French, 1892-1990) color serigraph on paper with silver, gold, and red foil embossing titled “Kiss of Fire” from the artist’s Love and Passion Suite, numbered 61/300, published circa 1983. Depicts a partially nude male and a female couple in profile standing on a gold surface and dressed in red, orange, and purple flowing garments and headdresses reminiscent of flames, their arms resting on each other’s shoulders, against a black background with a black circular pattern embossed above. Numbered in white pencil, lower left below image, signed “Erte” in white pencil, lower right below image. | quoted from Case Fine Arts & Antiques




Desperate cry. Rolf Arco in the Dance of the Suicide from the ballet “The Five Wishes” by Max Terpis and Rolf Arco. Stage design. Photographer: Elli Marcus.
Published in Scherl’s magazine in November 1929

