Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of you

and thanks so much for your visits.

You’re adorable followers. xoxo

By Tolkien, J.R.R. (Detail of a sketch in a letter. 1934) – Christmas scene with candles under the tree.

Letters, diaries and manuscripts

By Kirchner, Raphael – Eve and the snake

By Giacometti – Objets mobiles et muets (Mobile and mute objects)

 

By Hopper – Sketches for Night Windows

By Zille, Heinrich – Meine grüne garnitur (My green garnish)

By Picasso – Le chant des morts (The song of the dead)

By Schiele – Untitled

By Klimt – Written in Munich

By Blake, William – Songs of Innocence

By Manet – A letter from Bellevue with an sketch of a cat

By Gauguin – Drawn in Bretagne

By Warhol, Andy – A gourmet’s recipe to cook an iguana

By Van Gogh – A letter to his brother Theo. The Hague, Sunday, 29 and Monday, 30 July 1883

By Coulon, M. A. – The waiting

By Kuhn, Erika – Hasta el sueño más inesperado es un acertijo (Even the most unexpected dream is a riddle)

By Kahlo, Frida – Las dos Fridas (The two Frida)

By Matisse – Design for a cover of a compilation of photographs

Letters, diaries and manuscripts

By Klee – Mari and her friends

By Rembrandt – Writings beside a portrait of a diplomat after Raphael

By Bluemner, Oscar – Scribbles and doodles

By Hopper – Preliminary sketch for a woman in the sun

By Marc, Franz – Postcard with kittens in the night

By Dalí – Dedication to a doctor angel

By Schiele – To the dearest woman

By Constable – Overcast with writings

By anonymous author from Aztec Codex Mendoza. 16th century – Shamans curing an old man seventy years old and his wife (detail)

By Munch – Unknown title

By Peter, H. G. – Study of a cheerleader. Detail

By Van Gogh – A letter beside an sketch of a woman digging

By Bourdelle, Antoine – To my father

By Buffet, Bernard – The human voice and samples of calligraphy practises

By Al-Qazwini, Zakariya – Three zodiac signs of cosmography Marvels of Creatures and the Strange Things Existing (Persia 13th century)

By Waisman, Gabriel – Untitled design with hebrew typography

By Kalho, Frida – A letter from Coyoacán. Mexico

By Kandinsky – A manuscript by the artist

Letters, diaries and manuscripts

By Klee, Paul – Four conceptual frameworks. Notes on sketch of a face

By Constable – Drawing of clouds with annotation

By Gauguin – A figure on a ship with note written in the language of Polynesia

By Hopper, E. – Woman sitting in a lounge chair

By Kalho, Frida – Winged woman body with dove

By Magritte, Marcel Mariën – Manuscript beside two surrealist sketches

By Blake – A page of an illustrated poem

By Corinth, Lovis – Dedicated to Henny Porten actress

By Cocteau, Jean – Style design of a red coat over white dress

By Johns, Jasper – Sketch with handwritten words

By Chagall, Marc – Snake designed for an opera scene

By Goya – Sketch of the clergyman of the baptism of his daughter María del Pilar Dionisia

Greek manuscript with psalms of 11th century. (The Theodore Psalter)

By Baudelaire, Charles – A himself depiction with handwritten notes

By Manet – Decorated letter with fruits

By Honnecourt, Villard de – Gadgets with explanations. 13th century

By Michelangelo – Letter where the Artist’s depicted himself, while he is painting the Sistine Chapel

By Rowlandson – On an ugly old woman in the dark

By Eakins, Thomas – Several furnitures sketched in a letter

By Picasso – Postcard depicting a balcony with view to the sea

By Hensel, Wilhelm – Portrait of Rebecka Henriette, the youngest sister of Felix Mendelssohn the composer

By Vrubel, Mikhail – Characters of prisoners for a musical performance

By Van Gogh – A female head and others sketches in a letter

By Pucelles, Jean – Unknown title

By Kupreyanov, Nikolay – Diary’s sketch

By Bach, Johann Sebastian – Instructions to tune a clavier

By Toulouse-Lautrec – Sketch dedicated to John Rewald