Quite surreal illustration of “death and the maiden” theme [see also skull girls]
from Uramado, Japan’s most remarkable SM magazine, 1958-1964
thanks to foxesinbreeches & Les Rétro-Galeries de Mr Gutsy
fantastic Jacques Roubille illustration of Les Fleurs du Mal
thanks to aucarrefouretrange & les-retrogaleries-de-gutsy
more illustrations at lesretrogaleriesdemistergutsy and some more Baudelaire here
Skeleton and dancer,c.1930 by Keystone Agency
one more from BRG
[tumblr acted out again while I was asleep?!]
Poster for Married by Satan /Venchal ikh satana [1917, Russia]
yet another gem from Wrong Side of the Art !
Cover art by Rein van Looij for Dutch edition of The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
via ʇʞǝظqo ʇıqqɐɹ ǝʇıɥʍ, info from uk vintage
Erotischer Totentanz by Franz Fiedler, 1923 from frenchtwist
Also & more
Etude de nu. Jeune Femme Aux Vanités, c. 1930 by John Everard ***
from Verdeau
Der Arzt, Das Mädchen, Und Der Tod (The Doctor, The Girl, And Death) by Ivo Saliger, 1920
from blueruins
Harvey by Marco Patino
H. von Jan, 1900
from [my copy of;] Victorian Erotic Photography by Graham Ovenden, Peter Mendes
Sara Galiza as Morte
from the series Comedy of Double Meaning, Venice, 2010 by Hiroshi Watanabe
Kollektiv Rote Rube presents Liebe, Tod, Hysterie, ein Zirkus , between 1965 and 1980
[featuring Theda Bara from Salome]
from popartmachine & LOC