This deck was produced using the drypoint technique of scratching ink, and is somewhat on the ‘dark’ side. – Sarane Alexandrian (Surrealist, philosopher)īaskine’s work on the Tarot was announced as being “forthcoming” in a 1953 art review, but was never published during the artist’s lifetime. “I enjoyed Maurice Baskine, the phantasopher with the large round glasses (he called his philosophy of life phantasophy) looking for the philosopher’s stone in an athanor in his house in Fontenay-sous-Bois, and who would leave behind beautiful alchemical paintings, a new Tarot deck, a triptych on the Great Work, and a magical object, the Photoron with mirror.” Baskine is that student of Nature who knows how to extricate from the darkest matter the fire that smoulders and gleams when it comes into contact with a mind still in possession of its original gift.” “ gives a principally alchemical reading of the Tarot. – Jacques Bergier (author of The Morning of the Magicians) “To be sure, the Tarot has been the subject of a number of very interesting studies, especially in recent years, and among them is the unfortunately as-yet unpublished one by the contemporary artist Baskine.” At the time, his as-then-unpublished deck and the manuscript for his booklet were favourably mentioned by a number of prominent writers, and we find the following praise for his work: In terms of the Tarot, Baskine produced some 3 etchings for a limited edition of André Breton’s Arcanum 17, a work itself inspired by the Tarot.
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