Marinus van Reymerswaele, The Triumph of Death, 1565

Ex Libris

Gustav-Adolf Mossa, Self-portrait or Psychological portrait of the artist, 1905

Kobayakawa Kiyoshi, Tipsy , 1930

Domenico Tintoretto, Magdalena Penitente, c1600

Mimi Mammen (aka L. Folcardy), Apsara, 1915-16

George Petty, Petty Girl, Pin Up, True Magazine, 1947

Érik Desmazières, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1993

Alberto Vargas, Memories of Olive (Olive Thomas), 1920

Remedios Varo, Dead Leaves, 1956

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Yee Sookyung , Translated Vase , 2008

Richard Lindner, Hello , 1966

Maxfield Parrish, The Young King of the Black Isles, 1906

RIP Helsinki

John Reinhard Weguelin , The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat , 1886

Diego Velázquez, Venus at Her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus), 1644

Helmut Newton, The Rokeby Venus, 1981

Nicolas Kalmakoff, The Coronation, 1926

Man Ray, Monument to D.A.F. de Sade, 1933

Hokusai , Gods of Myriad Conjugal Delights, 1821

Clovis Trouille, Mes Funeraille, 1940

Of Bats and Wax: The Uncanny Profession of Clovis Trouille, Master of Bizarre Erotica

Clovis Trouille, Dialogue in the Carmel, 1944