artist: Albert Joseph Pénot

Départ pour le Sabbat, c.1910 (source)

Bat-woman, c.1890 (source)

Femme Nue (source)

Automne (source)

Reflet rouge (source)

Libelle (source)

The contrast between the shadowed curves of the bodies and the misty vagueness of the backgrounds in Pénot's paintings creates such a lovely, ethereal, magical atmosphere.
And the wispy hair curling endlessly away from the faces.
The shadows and the light and the grain.
Bodies in alien skies.
Smoke curled around sleeping lives.
I usually lounge on clouds too.