Illustration from Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath by Wallace Smith (1922)
Étoile cosmique
Raymond Roussel
1923
Roussel made this little memento after he had lunch on July 29th, 1923 with the astronomer and writer, Camille Flammarion. He saved a star-shaped cookie from the occasion which he encased in a silver pendant with glass. The piece was sold after his death in 1933 and discovered by chance by Georges Bataille at a flea market. Bataille gave it to his then-lover, Dora Maar who kept it for the rest of her life.
Charles Edward Perugini
Portraits of the Countess Granville, and the Ladies Victoria and Mary Leveson-Gower (details)
