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‘Calendrier Magique’ (1895) by Austin de Croze, illustrated by Manuel Orazi.

Description: A rare piece of occultist ephemera, printed in an edition of 777 copies to commemorate magic for the coming year of 1896. Each double page spread mimics the Christian calendar in some respect (name days,iconography). The document is at once a spoof and an attempt to chart the year of magic.

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Part II of a papercut Totentanz/ Dance Macabre from 1922 by German artist Walter Draesner. See part I here.

Pic1: Death and the gambler

Pic2: Death and the equestrian

Pic3: Death on the gallows

Pic 4: Death is random

Pic 5: Death and the anatomist

Pic 6: Death and the suicide victim

Pic 7: Death and the duelist

Pic 8: Death and the miners

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Insectes (1924) by Eugene Alain Seguy.

Eugene Alain Seguy was one of the foremost French designers at the beginning of the 20th century. Working in both the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles, he published many design folios utilizing the pochoir technique, a printing process that employs a series of stencils to lay dense and vivid color.

Eugene Alain Seguy produced eleven albums of illustrations and designs from the turn of the century to the 1930s, and his style reflected the influences of both Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

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LIli Damita, The Golden Butterfly (Michael Curtiz, 1926)

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“Dawn”, “City from Above with Tower of Babel”, and “Tower of Babel”: Concept art for Metropolis (1927) by Erich Kettelhut.

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Florine Stettheimer - Carl van Vechten - 1922

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Good Morning, Señora Madrileña! (Rooms Of Power) Palacio Linares

The Palace of Linares (Spanish: Palacio de Linares) is a palace located in Madrid, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1976

According to the rumour mill in Madrid, Linares Palace lock up the ghosts of the first Marquis de Linares, like that of a child, their daughter. According to this legend, José de Murga y Reolid would have confessed to his father, the rich merchant Mateo Murga y Michelena, he fell in love with a poor girl, Raimunda Osorio, presumably daughter of a cigarette seller. By knowing your father the name of the young, horrified, he would have sent his son to London in order to make him forget that young lady. The reason for his fear would be given by the fact that humble girl would have been the fruit of extramarital love by Mateo himself and therefore both lovers were half brothers.

The legend places Mateo died and the young newlyweds. In such a situation José would have found a letter from his father addressed to him in which he explained the reasons for his opposition to such a relationship. Jose and Raimunda, aware of the incestuous sin allegedly committed, would have been addressed to Pope Pius IX, who eventually would have granted a papal bull called Casti convivere, that is, to live together but in chastity. However, the love they have made them overlook their relationship half brothers and have engendered a daughter, who allegedly murdered as a child to avoid a scandal. Such daughter, Raimundita would have been walled or drowned and buried in the palace itself and, according to this legend, today, her spirit paces the great halls of the old palace singing children’s songs and calling their parents.