Tag: 1910s

Zwei tanzende Mädchen, 1916

Erna Lendvai-Dircksen :: Zwei tanzende Mädchen, 1916. | src MK&G ~ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)
Erna Lendvai-Dircksen :: Zwei tanzende Mädchen, 1916. | src MK&G ~ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)

Tänzerin, 1916

Erna Lendvai-Dircksen :: Tänzerin, 1916. | src MK&G ~ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)
Erna Lendvai-Dircksen :: Tänzerin, 1916. Volker Graf von Bethusy-Huc. | src MK&G ~ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)

Musidora par Henri Manuel

Henri Manuel ~ Photographie de Musidora allongée, tirage original monté sur carton avec cachet et signature du photographe et grande signature autographe de Musidora sur l’épreuve. | src La Gazette Drouot

Published in: Revue Variétés: Le Surréalisme en 1929. Bruxelles, juin 1929. Famous special issue of the Brussels magazine Variétés devoted to Surrealism in 1929 by André Breton and Louis Aragon.

Henri Manuel ~ Photograph of Musidora lying down, original print mounted on cardboard with stamp and signature of the photographer and large autograph signature of Musidora on the print. Not dated, probably around 1916.

Die Blätter mit dem Tod, 1918

Die Blätter mit dem Tod (The Leaves with Death), cover title: Ein Totentanz by Alfred Kubin. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Book of 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only. First edition with the cover title "A Dance of Death". | src Bassenge Auktionen
Die Blätter mit dem Tod (The Leaves with Death), cover title: Ein Totentanz by Alfred Kubin. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Book of 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only. First edition with the cover title “A Dance of Death”. | src Bassenge Auktionen
Alfred Kubin :: Die Blätter mit dem Tod; [cover title]: Ein Totentanz. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Kubin's sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final vignette, in which which a gravestone bears the the artist's own name; the cover is an additional lithograph. Kubin was well known for his explorations of macabre and satirical subject matter. This interpretation of the "Dance of Death" appeared at a moment when four years of world war and a spreading influenza pandemic meant that virtually no-one was untouched by death. | src locus solus rare books
Alfred Kubin :: Die Blätter mit dem Tod; [cover title]: Ein Totentanz. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Kubin’s sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final vignette, in which which a gravestone bears the the artist’s own name; the cover is an additional lithograph. Kubin was well known for his explorations of macabre and satirical subject matter. This interpretation of the “Dance of Death” appeared at a moment when four years of world war and a spreading influenza pandemic meant that virtually no-one was untouched by death. | src locus solus rare books
Alfred Kubin :: Das Ballgespenst [The Ball Ghost], thirteenth plate in the book Ein Totentanz. Folio, 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only (Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918). | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Alfred Kubin :: Das Ballgespenst [The Ball Ghost], thirteenth plate in the book Ein Totentanz. Folio, 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only (Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918). | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Portrait by Goodwin (1918)

Henry B. Goodwin :: Portrait of an unknown woman, 1918. Gelatin silver print. Signed "Goodwin 1918". LL/31847 | src Luminous Lint (Alan Griffiths)
Henry B. Goodwin :: Portrait of an unknown woman, 1918. Gelatin silver print. Signed “Goodwin 1918”. LL/31847 | src Luminous Lint (Alan Griffiths)

Vera Fokina als Ha-Tor, um 1914

Arthur Grunenberg :: Vera Fokina as Ha-Tor in “Cleopatra”. Partly colored etching on handmade paper, signed in pencil below the image on the right: “A. Grunenberg” and inscribed “P XLV / 111”. Around 1914. | src Bassenge Auktionen