Luck and Death

2012/10/17

Cover of the album We're-Unstoppable (2005) by the Philadelphia hardcore band Blacklisted.

A retro pulp cover. Tough guy is risking all, Lady Luck is waiting.

Backgammon in a Tavern by the Dutch genre Golden Age painter Jan Steen.

Brigitte Bardot gambling in "Shalako" a 1968 British western film directed by Edward Dmytryk.

Top of the Heap by A.A. Fair a georgeous cover by Robert McGinnis.

"The Fortune Teller" by the French Impressionist painter Jean Frédéric Bazille.

Lucky Luke drawing against Pat Poker. Not surprising that the villain has hidden the ace of spades.

"The Checker Players" (1947) by the American painter Jacob Lawrence. Leisure for the working class.

Sandrine Bonnaire playing chess in the 2011 film "Queen to Play". Chess becomes here a resource of emancipation.

Cover of a science fiction magazine probably from the good old fiefties. It seems that the cloverleaf will stay a sign of good luck.