Antonin Artaud, 1896 - 1948

'Artaud is someone who has made a spiritual trip for us, a shaman. It would be presumptuous to reduce the geography of his trip to what can be colonized. Its authority lies in the parts that yield nothing for the reader except intense discomfort of the imagination.' Susan Sontag

Francis Davison 'Horizontal Navy (G-609)' 1978-83 The Redfern Gallery

Anne Ryan 'Collage 179' c. 1948

Søren Kierkegaard, go for a walk

Antonin Artaud drawn by André Masson for Artaud's 'L’Ombilic des Limbes', 1925 (published in English as The Umbilicus of Limbo).

Nam June Paik Sonatine for Goldfish 1992

A fabulous litho print of Arp's woodcut and newspaper collage, originally made in 1919 as a binding for Dada 4-5 but printed more recently, is on sale at Bonhams

Martin Sharp's iconic screenprint design was the cover image of Oz no. 7 (Oct/Nov 1967), which magazine he co-founded. He gave this particular one, gorgeously printed on metallic foil and nicely framed, to Marianne Faithfull. It's currently being auctioned off at Sotheby's.

Kurt Schwitters White-Blue C 5[…] 1946 collage of machine-made white mailing label with black letterpress printing and black and red typewriting, graphite, coloured pencil, tempera paint, and board, on board. 32.4 × 26.3 cm Yale University Art Gallery

Carole Lombard by William E. Thomas, 1929.

Kurt Schwitters Merzzeichnüng 54 Fallende Werte 1920 30 x 22.5 cm Centre Pompidou

Gray Scramble by Frank Stella guggenheim.org/artwork/15014

Metropolis poster designed by Boris Bilinski 1926 via MoMA. Discover more design history by subscribing to my newsletter designreviewed.com/newsletter/

Kazimir Malevich Suprematism 1917 65.6 × 48.2cm Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art

Anish Kapoor Breathing Blue 2020 incredible movement in this digital print on wove paper 29.7 x 42.1 cm

Richard Serra Finally Finished III (G. 3563) 2018 monumental etching in black on Fuji Kozo paper 189.9 x 151.1 cm

Roy Lichtenstein Chem IA from 'Peace Through Chemistry' Series (G. 248, C. 100) 1970 76.2 x 51.5 cm

Near the end. Artaud at Rodez

Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu in Dreyer's classic silent movie 'The Passion of Joan of Arc', 1928