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Well, I think so. The deceased original tumblr source suggests that this illustration was the work of an artist named “Henry Sebastian” and dated it to 1932, but I haven’t been able to find any information on this artist or verify the provenance. I originally blogged this image in this 26 November 2015 post at Infernal Wonders.
My facetious title aside, this work is in fact entitled Love, by Polish artist Aleksandra Marchocka. It is reblogged here with her kind permission. She notes that it is inspired by Agnolo Bronzino‘s (1503-1572) Allegory of Lust (you can see the original work here), and further that it took part in the exhibition ” “Włoski, włoski…” (“Italian, Italian…” I think) in Warsaw in 2012.
Aleksandra has a DeviantArt site, her own professional site, and can be reached as well on Instagram and Facebook.
Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs! Bacchus’s research:
This image is a rare silent film poster for the 1919 movie Opium. (A trailer for Opium is available on YouTube.) Text on the poster is “Opium. Ein monumental Filmwerk in 6 Akten. Regie Robert Reinert.” There is a detailed synopsis of the movie here. According to this page and confirmed by the signature at upper left, the poster artist was Theo Matejko.
Also orientalist art, and about drugs (which are very mad science) and also a bit of research by Bacchus:
This artwork is A Voluptuous Smoke by French artist Charles Édouard Delort. This page gives an 1867 date for the work, and says it was offered for sale in a Christie’s auction in 1988. A bit more information about Delort is available here.
Smoke ’em while you got ’em.
The image above is a still from the 2003 movie Party Monster. A closely-related frame appears in higher resolution on this page along with the caption “This week I saw an amazing movie called Party Monster from 2003. It is based on a true story of an extravagant guy who was party organizer but whose life became a downward spiral of all popularity, drugs and murder.”
A very brief glimpse of these same good-time party nurses can be seen about one minute and twenty-five seconds into this movie trailer available on YouTube:
This post is a reblog with added provenance from a 16 November 2013 post at Infernal Wonders. The original image source at that time was a now-missing post at the Psykvi tumblr of which, sadly, no trace whatsoever remains on Tumblr or in the Internet Archive.
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