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David Hockney - Snow without colour, 1973

Jorge Luis Borges,  Luna de enfrente

Later edition of Borges’ 2nd published collection of poems (1925)

Illustrations by Juan Eichler

Nigella (Love-in-a-mist) with a pale clouded yellow butterfly and insects
 
Johann Christoph Dietzsch (1710-1769)

The Fitzwilliam Museum, UK

Léon Bakst (1866-1924) for the journal “Comœdia Illustré” 

Numéro spécial, n° 17 , 1er juin 1911

“…alas, said the mouse, the world is growing smaller every day”

Franz Kafka “A Little Fable” (“Kleine Fabel”)

Illustrations by Vincent Stall, 2004

Apollo with the tortoise-shell lyre, on a 5th-century BC drinking cup

(via yama-bato)

Marc Chagall - Aleko and Zemphira by Moonlight, 1942

Study for backdrop for scene 1 of the ballet Aleko

The Museum of Modern Art, NY

Illustration by Valentine Hugo, 1938

from the book of Paul Eluard “Les Animaux et leurs hommes. Les Hommes et leurs animaux”. Paris, Gallimard, s.d.[1938], in-12.

Odilon Redon 

Illustrations “Hommage à Goya (1885)”

“The marsh flower, a head human and sad (La fleur du marécage, une tête humaine et triste)”

The Fitzwilliam Museum, England

William Blake - Illustration for “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, 1790 - 1793

“Those who restrain desire…”

The Fitzewilliam Museum, England

Alfred Kubin - Die Haarschleppe

Illustrations

1900-1903