From My Upcoming Series “A Charley Brown X-Mas In Amsterdam”
ByDix Steele

Oh man, I would honestly pay $$ to see this on a big screen.. how fun, Dix! Your subject matters never do disappoint! Thanks so much for this latest contribution. ~ Eros

“Queen of Hearts” by alexandergrahovsky 

50x70cm pencils + digital color

What a creative yet macabre take on the Queen of Hearts, my dear Alex.. beautiful colors, great pose.. big thanks to you for another stunning submit. ~ Eros

• Cristiana Couceiro •

SABRINA - THE DARK LORD’S SWORD

CAOS PART II (2019)

Malantai & Thanewulf - By Malantai

Kicking off with artwork from a few years ago. My boyfriend’s and my own avatars in Star Wars The Old Republic.

Dubonnet. 1933. A. M. Cassandre.

Each: 11 5/8 x 15 in./29.5 x 38 cm

Cassandre’s most popular and enduring advertising idea was for Dubonnet, an odd aperitif created with fortified wine, herbs, spices and quinine. It’s basically the French version of the gin-&-tonic: a drink invented so French Foreign Legionnaires in North Africa could get the quinine down. For a commercial market, however, the libation was a little more dubious. Cassandre ran with it: “Dubo,” (a casual French word for ‘doubt’); “Dubon” (‘good’)… Dubonnet. “Whether Cassandre was thinking of comic strips or motion pictures is impossible to say,“ but "among French posters of the twentieth century none is better known. It was kept in circulation for more than two decades” (Brown & Reinhold, p. 17). This is in a version not previously seen: 3 sheets, smaller format, and with the originally intended blue center panel. 

Available at auction February 25, 2018.

Grand Prix d'Aviation. 1912. Ernest Louis Lessieux.

28 3/8 x 40 ¾ in./72 x 103.5 cm

Military men look on, skeptically and thoughtfully, as a ground crew struggles to manage a Blériot XXVII on the turf outside Angers. This was “the first contest to show the extent to which the aeroplane could be depended upon as an instrument of war” (Looping the Loop, p. 83). In the actual competition, an early summer date proved unwise as terrible rains and winds descended upon the course. Just before the event was postponed, however, Roland Garros landed his Deperdussin “Demoiselle,” winning the event to the consternation of the other 34 pilots who hadn’t been able to compete. “‘It was a moving, at times agonizing, demonstration,’ reported Le Matin. ‘The most marvelous show of valor in aviation,’ chimed in writer Jacques Mortane. The exploit of Garros against a fierce wind had placed him ahead of all the pilots in the world” (p.83).

Available at auction February 25, 2018.

Kali Uchis, Isolation, 2019.