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Two Young Women Kissing (1790s) by Louis-Léopold Boilly.

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This is Hale Bopp Comet.

I took these pictures from my garden during spring 1997.

Those were the days…

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Moon

by Michael Creese

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Dancing Fairies 1866

By August Malmström

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On the Edge

by Aleks Stoller

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           The Ideal Partita (Georges Jules Victor Clairin (1843 - 1919)

Born in Paris on September 11, 1843 and died in Belle-Ile-en-Mer on September 2, 1919 (aged 75). He was educated at the workshops of d'Isidore Pils et de François-Édouard Picot. In 1861 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and began to exhibit from 1866. Then he travels to Spain with Henri Renier, and Italy with François Flamengue and Jean-Leon Gérôme. He also visits Maroco with the Catalan artist Marià Fortuny. In 1895 he traveled to Egypt with the composer Camille Saint-Saens. He is the most famous portrait painter of Sarah Bernhardt, with whom he had a long friendship. He is the uncle of the artist Pierre-Eugène Clairin

Sample Works:

1. A Bride’s Fantasy

2.  An Ouled-Nail Tribal Dancer

3.  At the Opera

4. Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt

5.  Buste De Femme De Profile

6.  Costume pour une fete orientale

7. Elegant Figures Watching the Regatta

8. Deux femmes Ouled-Nail

9.  Entering the Harem

10.  La Promenade

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Selene

by Jules Louis Machard

1847

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Ahasuerus at the End of the World by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1888)

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Peder Severin Krøyer (1851–1909), Roses (details)

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Illustration from Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven by Gustave Doré (1884)

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Candy Darling on her deathbed (1974) by Peter Hujar

Darling died of lymphoma on March 21, 1974, aged 29, at the Columbus Hospital division of the Cabrini Health Care Center. In a letter written on her deathbed and intended for Warhol and his followers, Darling wrote, "Unfortunately before my death I had no desire left for life ... I am just so bored by everything. You might say bored to death. Did you know I couldn't last. I always knew it. I wish I could meet you all again." Her funeral, held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel, was attended by huge crowds. Julie Newmar read the eulogy. Darling's birth name was never spoken by the minister or any of the eulogizers. Faith Dane played a piano piece, and Gloria Swanson saluted Darling's coffin.

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Stevenson Memorial

By Abbott Handerson Thayer

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La Danse du Feu

Joseph Tomanek

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Edna May In The Belle Of New York (1907)

By John Lavery

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The end of the ball (1915)

by Rogelio Egusquiza

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On The Balcony, The Love Letter - 1883

J. Ferry

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Anastasia de Torby 

by Philip de László