They Like to Dress — Leonor Fini

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Sleeping Groom and Sorceress — Hans Baldung

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A New York Blizzard — Childe Hassam

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Pride — Hieronymus Bosch

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The Bridge — Mike Davis

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A Jester — Marx Reichlich

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The Morning Birds — Melchior d’Hondecoeter

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Red Got Shanked — Andrew Hem

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Sybil — Cecil Collins

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…from Codex Seraphinianus

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Hawksbill Turtle — Mark Catesby

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Edgar Allan Poe — Felix Vallotton

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Clown Making Up — John French Sloan

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Three Books

The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller. 1964 paperback by Penguin Books. Cover drawing by the English cartoonist and art critic Osbert Lancaster.

The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir. 1964 paperback by Penguin Books. Cover art by Anthony Common.

The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann. 1961 paperback by Penguin Books. Cover art by the English artist Brian Wildsmith, who is perhaps most famous for his marvelous children’s book illustrations.

Pushkin Girl — John Currin


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A Dream of Latmos — Joseph Noël Paton

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Voyage d’Hermès — Moebius

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