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Le Frou-Frou : Maquette. 1900. Weiluc.

20 ¾ x 25 3/8 in./52.8 x 64.5 cm

This handsigned, gouache and ink maquette by Weiluc is an original representation of one of the most famous, most witty, most flirtatious, most exquisitely French posters of all time. Le Frou-Frou was a satirical magazine that ran from the turn of the 20th century to World War I. Cappiello actually designed the poster for the first issue (No. 150), but it’s this one, with legs disappearing within the pure white fantasy space of petticoats, the luxurious pillows, the languorous cigarette spelling out the name in smoke, and – most especially – the devastatingly seductive dart of eyes to our left, that will have us dreaming for many years to come.

Then I told him that I felt that Norman Bates, if he were a painting, would be painted by Hopper, and he agreed. So we had kind of that discussion, writer and actor, about the character. He had an incredible grasp on Norman Bates and the situation that he was in. I think Tony Perkins must have known what it was like to be trapped. —Joseph Stefano, screenwriter, in The Making of Psycho (1997)

PSYCHO dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1960)

Promotional T-shirt for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.

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"art thou afraid? no monster, not i. be not afraid, for the isle is full of sights, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will humm about mine ears. and sometimes voices, that if i then had waked after long sleep would let me sleep again. and then in dreaming, the clouds we thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me, that when i waked, i cried to dream again..."