Les Bijoux Indiscrets, 1962

René Magritte :: Les Bijoux Indiscrets 1962. (The Indiscreet Jewels) Color lithograph, 1962-3. As published in XXeme Siecle, 1963 From the edition issued by San Lazarro unsigned for the album XXeme Siècle No.22. Printed at the studio of Mourlot, Paris 1963.
René Magritte :: Les Bijoux Indiscrets 1962. (The Indiscreet Jewels). Color lithograph, 1962-3. As published in XXeme Siecle, 1963 From the edition issued by San Lazarro unsigned for the album XXeme Siècle No.22. Printed at the studio of Mourlot, Paris 1963. | 1st dibs

Bal au château des Noailles, 1929

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) :: Bal au château des Noailles, vers 1929. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src l'œil de la photographie (detail)
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) :: Bal au château des Noailles, vers 1929. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src l’œil de la photographie
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) :: Bal au château des Noailles, vers 1929. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src l'œil de la photographie
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) :: Bal au château des Noailles, vers 1929. [full image] | src l’œil de la photographie
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) :: Bal au château des Noailles, vers 1929. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) :: Bal au château des Noailles, vers 1929. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src Centre Pompidou

The Fifty faces of Juliet

Man Ray :: The Fifty faces of Juliet, 1941-1954. | src WO | MAN RAY. Le seduzioni della fotografia
Man Ray :: The Fifty faces of Juliet, 1941-1954. | src WO | MAN RAY. Le seduzioni della fotografia
Man Ray :: The Fifty faces of Juliet, 1941-1954. | src WO | MAN RAY. Le seduzioni della fotografia
Man Ray :: The Fifty faces of Juliet, 1941-1954. | src WO | MAN RAY. Le seduzioni della fotografia
Man Ray :: The Fifty faces of Juliet, 1941-1954. | src WO | MAN RAY. Le seduzioni della fotografia
Man Ray :: Juliet Browner, vers 1945. Négatif au gélatino bromure d’argent sur support souple. | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) :: Juliet, vers 1950. Négatif gélatino-argentique sur support souple. | src Centre Pompidou

La danseuse (Entr’acte, 1924)

Entr’acte. An “instantaneous” film. Rolf de Maré’s Ballets Suédois have just produced the film Entr’acte which will be screened during the ballet Relâche by Francis Picabia, music by Erik Satie and choreography by Jean Börlin, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. The script of the film is by Francis Picabia, the technical production of René Clair. The performance brings together the names of Jean Börlin and Inge Frïss from the Swedish Ballets, Marcel Duchamp and Man-Ray. Le Théâtre et Comœdia illustré, November 1924.
Entr’acte. Un film “instantanéiste”. Les Ballets Suédois de Rolf de Maré viennent de produire un film Entr’acte qui sera projeté au cours du ballet Relâche de Francis Picabia, musique d’Erik Satie et chorégraphie de Jean Börlin, au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Le scénario du film est de Francis Picabia, la réalisation technique de René Clair. L’interprétation réunit les noms de Jean Börlin et de Inge Frïss des Ballets Suédois, de Marcel Duchamp, Man-Ray. Le Théâtre et Comœdia illustré, Nov. 1924. | src BnF ~ Gallica
La danseuse (Entr’acte), René Clair, 1924. | src Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne – RMN

Wendt’s photomontages

Lionel Wendt :: Gay Abandon, ca. 1940, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950) | src British Art Studies
Lionel Wendt :: Adventures in Space, ca. 1930s-1940s, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950) | src British Art Studies

Wendt’s photomontage has been most conventionally and variously comprehended through its pastiche of influences and motifs such as De Chirico’s futurist arches, Magritte’s “Ceci n’est pas un oeuf,” Piero della Francesca’s Brera Madonna, Georges Bataille’s rumination on the story of the eye, and the recurrent vignette of a distant brig. Although he clearly held great admiration for those artistic circles he came into contact with in Europe, it seems a bit too summary merely to insert him within these narratives. (quoted from source)

Ode to Necrophilia, 1962

Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from Oda a la Necrofilia (Ode to Necrophilia), 1962. | src Princeton University Art Museum
Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from Oda a la Necrofilia (Ode to Necrophilia), 1962. | src Princeton University Art Museum

Mujer y máscara by Kati Horna

Kati Horna :: Mujer y máscara, Ciudad de México, 1963 | src Michael Hoppen Gallery via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Mujer y máscara, Ciudad de México, 1963 | src Michael Hoppen Gallery via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Untitled, from ‘Mujer y máscara’ [Woman and Mask], Mexico, ca. 1963 | src Sotheby’s
Kati Horna :: Untitled. Mujer y máscara [Woman and Mask], Mexico, 1963. Gelatin silver print | src michael hoppen gallery
Kati Horna :: Untitles, Mujer y máscara (Woman and Mask Series) Mexico, 1963 © Kati Horna Estate | src Michael Hoppen Gallery online exhibit

Mujer saliendo de psicoanalista

Remedios Varo (1908-1963) ~ Mujer saliendo de psicoanalista (Podría ser Juliana), 1960 (detail)
Remedios Varo (1908-1963) ~ Mujer saliendo de psicoanalista (Podría ser Juliana), 1960. Oil on canvas | src MAMM

Mujer saliendo de psicoanalista es una escena onírica de luminosidad difusa, que muestra a una mujer recién salida de un consultorio de psicoanálisis; congelada en un movimiento sigiloso y elegante, está a punto de depositar la fantasmal cabeza de un hombre dentro de un pozo al centro de un patio interior circular, cubierto por nubes grisáceas. En la mano contraria lleva una pequeña canasta con “desperdicios psicológicos”, objetos simbólicos (un reloj, unas gafas, una botella de elíxir, una llave). A la altura del cuello, como parte de su vestimenta, asoma una especie de máscara, versión de su otro yo. El detalle de la cartela del consultorio dice: “Doctor FJA” y hace referencia a las iniciales de los apellidos de los doctores Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung y Alfred Adler. | src MAMM

Remedios Varo (1908-1963) ~ Mujer saliendo de psicoanalista (Podría ser Juliana), 1960. Oil on canvas | src cultura.mx