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Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard was a publisher and spy for the British crown who never left the Netherlands and drew surreal Indian Ocean fish ...
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Japanese Artist Itsuo Kobayashi Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

Japanese Artist Itsuo Kobayashi Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

For decades chef Itsuo Kobayashi has been drawing his food diaries, creating a visual record of an enduring love ...
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Buy Prints Cecil Beaton’s War Drawings

Cecil Beaton’s War Drawings

It was the Queen who recommended Beaton to the Ministry of Information, where he was employed as a War Photographer. It was a great relief to Beaton who felt: …frustrated and ashamed. This war, as far as I can see, is something specifically designed to show up my inadequacy in every possible capacity. ...
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Buy Prints Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Seeing wonder in the small - looking at the 'German Darwin's' world of wonder ...
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Moebius Illustrates Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Soup

Moebius Illustrates Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Soup

  Inspired by a 1967 photograph taken by journalist Jean-Nöel Coghe of Jimi Hendrix (November ...
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Barbara Hepworth’s Hospital Drawings (1947 – 1949)

Barbara Hepworth’s Hospital Drawings (1947 – 1949)

The greatest British sculptor's ethereal studies of surgeons at work ...
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Extraordinary Arts Studies From West Of Zanzibar By William Mortensen (1928)

Extraordinary Arts Studies From West Of Zanzibar By William Mortensen (1928)

From the outset, Mortensen's subject matter was unabashedly theatrical, bizarre and often louche. He was an ardent admirer of Goya and Daumier, and with his Hollywood access to costumes, sets, makeup and masks, created elaborate tableaux vivants in his studio. ...
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Pablo Picasso’s Illustrated Postcards To His Friends

Pablo Picasso’s Illustrated Postcards To His Friends

Picasso's postcards to Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Leo Stein and Guillaume Apollinaire ...
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Aubrey Beardsley’s Sublime and Sinister Illustrations For Edgar Allan Poe (1894)

Aubrey Beardsley’s Sublime and Sinister Illustrations For Edgar Allan Poe (1894)

Aubrey Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) illustrated the work of Edgar Allan ...
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Hate Mail For A Dirty Queen: Mr Bingo’s Illustrated Envelopes And Vintage Postcards

Hate Mail For A Dirty Queen: Mr Bingo’s Illustrated Envelopes And Vintage Postcards

We love Mr Bingo' envelopes and cards. The art of handwriting and sending cards and ...
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Victor Hugo’s Blotto Drawings In Coal, Dust And Blood (1848-1866)

Victor Hugo’s Blotto Drawings In Coal, Dust And Blood (1848-1866)

  "Exaltation is a tremendous lucidity" (Le vertige est une lucidité formidable), particularly an exaltation ...
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Gorey Be Damned: Sticky Nightmares Drawn On Post It Notes

Gorey Be Damned: Sticky Nightmares Drawn On Post It Notes

'When I have time I draw Monster drawings on sticky notes. It's a little window into a different world made on office supplies' - John Kenn Mortensen  ...
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