Vladimir Nabokov

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Carl Mydans, Vladimir Nabokov chasing butterflies, 1958
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Carl Spitzweg, The Butterfly Catcher, 1840

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Randolph Caldecott (1846-86), The Professor's Class

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French School, Held Aloft by Umbrellas and Butterflies, Men and Women Fly
Out of Windows

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Goya, They have flown, plate 61 of 'Los caprichos', 1799

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Toyen, Sleeper, 1937

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Irina Polin, Butterfly 2009

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Martin Eder, Good Bye, 2008

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André Breton chasing butterflies with Benjamin Péret in St.-Cirq, c. 1959

Hotel of Sparks
by André Breton

The philosophical butterfly
Alights on the rosy star
And that makes a window in hell
The masked man is still standing in front of the naked woman
Whose hair glides like in the morning the light on a streetlamp that has not
been extinguished
The learned furniture urges on the room that juggles
With its rose-windows
Its circular sunbeams
Its glass mouldings
Within which a geometric sky is turning blue
In memory of the inimitable breast
Now the cloud of a garden passes over the head of the man who has just sat
down
And is cutting in two the woman with the bust of magic and the Parma eyes
It is the hour when the polar bear with the highly intelligent look
Stretches himself and counts a day

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André Breton, Le déclin de la société bourgeoise, about 1935 - 1940

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Max Ernst, Und die Schmetterlinge beginnen zu singen. Illustrationsvorlage
zu 'La femme 100 têtes', Paris 1929

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Max Bucaille (1906-1992), Untitled (Butterfly)

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Jindřich Štyrský, Alabastrová ručička ["Little Alabaster Hand"], 1940

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Edith Rimmington, The Decoy, 1948

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David E. Scherman, Woman wearing a mask to the masked ball, Paris 1946

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Julien Pacaud

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Jo Whaley, Sphinx pereleganis

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Krysztof Wladika

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Jozef Mehoffer (1869-1946), The Strange Garden, n.d.

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Berthe Morisot, The Butterfly Hunt, 1874

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Michelangelo Maestri, Cupid led by butterflies, c. 1800

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Flora and Zephyr, 1875

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Toyen (Maria Cerminova), Cover für Jindrich Heislers "Nur die Turmfalken
brunzen ruhig auf die 10 Gebote", 1939

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Deyrolle, ENTOMOLOGIE
46 Rue du Bac
75007 Paris
http://www.deyrolle.com/magazine/

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Julien Pacaud, Butterfly Factory

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Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait, 1940

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Larry Rivers, Madame Butterfly, 1978

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Terry Richardson

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Still Life of Dead Birds and Cherries, 1712

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Pierre Roy, Butterflies No. 1 and No. 2, 1931, oil on canvas

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Dali, Allegorie de soie

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Madame Yevonde, 4th July, 1938

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Vincent Van Gogh, Great Peacock Moth

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Andy Warhol, Butterfly

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Transparent

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Leonard Koscianski, Flowers That Fly, 2008

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Yousuf Karsh, Vladimir Nabokov, 1972


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Thursday, 23 December, 2010
Grids <http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2010/12/grids.html>

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Anton Stankowski, Verpacktes Verbrechen (Packaged Crime), 1936

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Jason Langer, Hand, Divisadero St., 1995

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Corrie McCluskey, Cellblock Corridor with Bars, Auschwitz, 2001

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Anon., Mugshot Andrew Misner, Howard Hunter, 1934

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Walter Astrada, Femicide in Guatemala

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Misha Gordin, The New Crowd, 2001

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Victor Vasarely, JAK, 1965

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Fredrik Marsh, Abandoned Apartment, near Rosenstraße, Berlin 2005

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Marcus Doyle, Monument Diner

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Alex MacLean, B-52 Bone Yard

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Anon., Berlin 1945

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Marie Hansen, Rows of WACS after having put on their gas masks for training
drill; Fort Des Moines, 1942

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Germaine Krull, Rouages, vers 1929

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Ikko Narahara, Marunouchi, 1954

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Aleksander Rodchenko, A girl with “Leika”, 1934

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Robert Heinecken, Cliché Vary/Fetishism, 1974

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Jason Langer, Temptations, 2001

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Lucien Clergue, Room with a View, 1970s

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Andante sostenuto

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Magritte, Golconde, 1950

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Eugene De Salignac, Brooklyn Bridge Painters, 1914

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Arthur Tress, Flying Dream, Queens, NY, 1971

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Hiroshi Watanabe, El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador, 2002

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Michael Levin, Ginseng Farm

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Alex MacLean, Parking Lot Markings

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David Burdeny, Rails, Japan, 2006

Along this road
Goes no one,
This autumn eve.

Bashô

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Bill Brandt, A Snicket in Halifax, 1937

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Wols, Paris 1937

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Albrecht Tübke, Twins

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British School, The Cholmondeley Ladies circa 1600-10

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Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, Plates 79 - 84 [Électro-Physiologie
Photographique], 1862

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Eadweard Muybridge, Woman Walking Downstairs, 1901

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Sol LeWitt, Book cover for Sunrise & Sunset at Praiano (Rizzoli 1980)

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Mark Tansey, A Short History of Modernist Painting, 1982

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Antonio Donghi, Giocoliere, 1926

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Somewhere in Moscow

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Rinko Kawachi

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A grid of my grids
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