Spasmes

All the captioned serpents are present and mounted on the etchings, as they should be.

Frans de Geetere illustrated several books in the 1920s and early 1930s. Remy de Gourmont wrote of his etchings: “These drawings, of a rare erotic intuition, miraculously capture, without the injury of vain precision, the atmosphere of sensual mysticism in which I myself wished to steep my ideas and dreams.” This suite of free prints is his erotic masterpiece; he was himself its publisher, and one might add to “sold nowhere” the words “on land,” for de Geetere had set up his studio on the water, more precisely on a houseboat in Paris.

The twelve etchings are titled Fidélité, Coulisses, Assaut, Les deux sœurs, Paysage, The Black Door, Confidences, Introduction, Post coïtum, Idylle, Bachelières, En visite.

Dutel, II, 2449.