Luck and Death

2012/04/13

Rita Hayworth as a gambling femme fatale in the film "Gilda" (1946).

Voltaire is playing chess with the Pope and it looks like if he’s winning. One of the chess series by the German artist A. Paul Weber.

A Lady Luck on cover of the 1930s. She’s also the Ace of Hearts.

"The Card Players" (1890-92) by the French painter Paul Cézanne.

Ultra cool billard by the British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge.

Poster of "The Sting" (1973), probably one of the best known gambling movies with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Cover of a German Pulp. If people are playing poker Death or even Satan aren’t far.

A modernist cover of the 1920s for the novel "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

"The Dice Players" by the French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour who was here much more interested in the play of light and shadow than the dices.

Hitler and Stalin are gambling with lifes of their people. It should be noticed that real political leaders would have played chess.