James J. Conwayさんのイラストまとめ

“Lucy”, was Lucy Krohg, model for many of Pascin’s works – his “muse”, although like most women burdened with that equivocal status she was far more than just a decorative source of inspiration. https://t.co/4VWPuBSdMk

The opera “Maria Malibran” by Robert Russell Bennett premiered in NYC #OTD in 1935. Its subject was a hugely popular Spanish opera singer who more or less established the template of the suffering diva, who had died 100 years earlier at the age of just 28. #AYearofStrangeFlowers

Colette met “Missy”, short-haired, suited Marquise Mathilde de Morny, #OTD in 1905. “What are your pronouns?” asked Colette, anachronistically. Missy gazed into her almond eyes, took her hand and held it to her lips.
“Yours.”
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... and also ended up working for two popes as a chamberlain (also he was gay and twice married). During WW2, though, he was head of the Carrier Pigeon Service, headquartered – naturally – in Wing House. Morgan himself was often described in avian terms ...

Ready to hear about a ... not so distinguished war record? We take you now to Wing House, Piccadilly, London, where we find a certain Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar, an occultist who conducted black masses with Aleister Crowley ... #AYearofStrangeFlowers https://t.co/byz6E9GCo5

French writer Joséphin Péladan, the “sandwich man of the beyond” as he was unkindly called, launched his hugely influential “Salon de la Rose+Croix” in Paris #OTD in 1892. The exhibition proved so popular that it stopped traffic. #AYearofStrangeFlowers https://t.co/TeXErrFXWU

Today's unheimlich flea market find; the eye is actually a bead stuck on to the postcard. This almost looks like a @RixdorfEditions cover already!

... and Beck delivered a bitter response under a prophetic pseudonym: Troll. Beck later turns up as a character in André Gide’s “The Counterfeiters” and when the writing dried up he became a salesman for Sunlight soap, before dying of tuberculosis in 1916 at the age of just 37.

Raggedy dandy Bibi-la-Purée, “a fetid and malodorous Brummell”, klepto-hobohemian with a weakness for umbrellas, Picasso subject and factotum to Paul Verlaine, attends the poet’s funeral #OTD in 1896 with tragicomic consequences ... #AYearofStrangeFlowers
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