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The Supplement: Wallace Smith

Wallace Smith (1888 - 1937) provided these striking, agonised illustrations for Ben Hecht's Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath - a work of "vigorous grotesquerie and misanthropy"  .   First published in 1922 as a limited run, most copies of the book were destroyed by the powers-that-be on grounds of obscenity.  Smith's illustrations recall the dazzle of surface and complexity of line of Harry Clarke .