Photo booth shots of Marie-Berthe Aurenche, Max Ernst’s second wife, c.1929. She would later become the mistress of artist Chaim Soutine, whom she was buried with after her suicide in 1960. Not much else is known about her life, which makes these images all the more haunting.
Édouard Golbin
Quartier du Marais, Juillet 1985
From Paris entre chats
Apropos for today: Undine Lost in the Danube by Arthur Rackham
Josef Váchal, “The Island of the Blissful”
208 x 208 mm woodcut
1912
The Bath - Félix Vallotton, 1894
(via cavetocanvas)
Artist Marta Minujín’s book-sculpture “The Tower of Babel,” Buenos Aires. Eighty feet tall—seven full stories of books.
One of Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations for Le Morte D’arthur, depicting the Lady of the Lake telling Arthur about Excalibur.
