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HILDA HILST — The Obscene Madame D, transl. by Nathanaël & Rachel Gontijo Araujo, (2025)

Courtesy National Gallery of Art.

— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

Peder Severin Krøyer painted this scene in June 1893 at Skagen, a fishing village in northern Denmark that became a favorite gathering place for the group dubbed the Skagen Painters. The two figures depicted in the distance are Anna Ancher and Krøyer's then-wife Marie, both of whom were themselves painters associated with the Skagen group.

Wild Bunch

Sirena by Benes (Benesch) Knüpfer  (Czech, 1848 - 1910)

Torajirō Kojima, from the village of Shimohara in Okayama Prefecture, was an important figure in Japanese Impressionism. He studied first at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (Tōkyō bijutsu gakkō), then, from 1908, at the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Gand, Belgium. He was commissioned in 1924 to paint a fresco in honor of the Emperor Meiji but died before its completion; it was finished by his friend Shigeru Yoshida.

NGC 474, Shell of the Universe

Sylvia Plath, from “The Eye-Mote” in The Colossus and Other Poems (originally published in 1960)

Watercolour and ink , 20 x 15 cm.

Félix Vallotton (France, 1865-1925) Forêt de Boulogne, 1919

Palsgaard Auction

Helena Riedel - Couple , ca 1930