Andromeda
Spencer Albright
1872
Mythological Scene
Oil on canvas
832 x 471 mm.
Andromeda is tied naked to a large tree in an otherwise
stony and sandy wilderness. Her arms are above her head, her
ankles are tied behind the tree; this thrusts her body forward
and spreads her legs. To our right is the head and severed neck
of a sea serpent. To our left is a stack of Perseus' armor and
other impedimenta. Perseus himself is shown in the act of
untying his breechcloth.
Le Bain des Cousins.
[Bath of the Cousins]
Unknown
16th ? Century
Gold and Enamel Bowl
Bowl 120 mm. diameter, 43 mm. deep, with Figures 52 and 44 mm. high
The inside of the bowl is covered in black enamel up to ca.
1 cm.of the rim. The 5 cm. figure of the naked boy rests on
the enamel to just above his waist. He is naked and
slightly erect. The 4.5 cm. figure of the girl, on the
opposite side, only has her feet touching the enamel. She
is also naked, with her hips and one hand on the rim and the
other hand hiding her pudenda. When the bowl contains water
up to the level of the enamel, however, the hairless pudenda
-- in exquisite detail -- are visible in reflection. The
boy seems to be looking at that reflection.
La Cascade
[The Waterfall]
Eduard Denude
1925
Landscape
Oil on canvas
732 x 353 mm.
A pinkish-brown rock wall, black water streaming unhindered in
front of it until it meets two symmetrical, nearly
spherical, eruptions of white foam at the bottom of the
painting.
Dunyazade Asks For a Story
Spencer Albright
1878
Mythological Scene
Oil on canvas
232 x 576 mm.
Two girls. One, ca. 15 years old, is lying on a bed. We
see only one arm and her head turned to look down that arm.
She is open-mouthed in shock or agony. The other, ca. 8, is
facing her holding the older girls hand in both of hers. We
see her from a little above the waist. There is a tear just
starting from her eye.
Un Etude Pour «La Cascade»
[A Study For "The Waterfall"]
Eduard Denude
1925
Figure study
Charcoal and crayon on paper
152 x 98 mm.
A nude woman seen from the back. She holds her long hair
up at the back of her head so that the ends just brush the top of
her buttocks. Those buttocks are highlighted with swirls of
white crayon. Several other partial sketches of the same scene
are in the corners of the paper, each with the white
highlights.
Europa
Gerald Bridge
1992
Mythological Scene
Acrylic on board
427 x 841 mm.
A modern barn. In left center, a naked woman bends over,
facing left, supporting herself on a bale of hay. Her large
dangling breasts just miss the hay. On the right, a bull
sporting an erection approaches her.
La Forete
[The Forest]
Eduard Denude
1919
Landscape
Oil on canvas
460 x 392 mm.
A symmetric valley leads towards a forested mount. The
nearby stone is featureless; the distant mount has contours, but
the trees nearly hide them.
Die Geschwesteren
[The Sisters]
Heinrich Geh
1852
Scene
Oil on wood
623 x 548 mm.
On the right: The edge of a plantation mansion. Leaning
out of an upper window is a young woman in elaborate costume and
elegantly arranged hair. On the left: a young woman at ground
level with her hands tied to a rectangular frame. She is
collapsed forwards, and -- by the marks on her back -- has
evidently been lashed very recently. Aside from the clothes and
hair, the two women are identical; in face, in shape, even in
their pose.
Incarnadine
Robert Jameson
1957
Figure
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
732 x 425 mm.
Figure of a supine woman; fully painted from the waist to
the knees (at bottom of picture), merely sketched in above the
waist, except for two bright nipples. The thighs, although fully
painted, are fuzzy as if out of focus. So is a
disproportionately large man's hand above the right thigh. In
the hand is a paintbrush which is depicted in increasing
sharpness towards the tip. This spreads a very thin line of
intense red up the center of the woman's pubic thicket. The line
has reached about the height of the midpoint of her thighs.
La Mariee Heureuse Va Se Laver
[The Happy Bride Goes To Wash]
Pierre Raimond
1898
Figure
Oil on canvas
327 x 318 mm.
The view is of a woman's buttocks and thighs, with only
enough space above her to show that she is bent over and
only enough bed on either side to see that she is leaving
it. There is a splash running down her right (far) thigh;
it is white, streaked with pink. Another, smaller, drop
falls towards that thigh.
Modesty
John Salway
1963
Figure
Acrylic on board
932 x 476 mm.
A woman from directly in front. Her head hangs down so
that the hair covers her face. Her left arm covers all of her
breasts save the swells at the bottom. Her right hand covers her
pudenda, except the left top corner of her pubic hair. Below
that hand, we see the open end of a condom. It is dangling from
her sex.
La Muraille
[The Wall]
Eduard Denude
1928
Landscape
Oil on canvas
450 x 260 mm.
Featureless, pink-sandstone walls slope upwards on either
side. Directly in front is (from bottom to top) a wall of
somewhat brighter color than the ones on either side reaching
nearly to the center of the canvas, the rounded top of an doorway
just seen over the wall, a spout -- as if for rainwater, an
elaborate window with a woman in medieval headgear looking out,
the domed roof of the building with a few sprigs of ivy crowing
on it. The sky is a bright, springtime, blue.
Oro
[Gold]
Lydia Castillo
1938
Figure
Oil on canvas
500 x 300 mm.
A naked woman lies on a bed, our point of view is from
above her head. Her feet are drawn together and near her
buttocks; her left knee is on the bed and her right knee is
nearly on the bed on the other side. Her hands grip the sheet on
either side of her buttocks. Her face is in a grimace which
could be pain, could be ecstasy. Through a window at the foot of
the bed pours golden light. This concentrates at her groin, and
spills off to her left side. At that edge, there are a few
golden coins.
Prenuptial Coiffeur
1834
Peter Fabian
Harem Scene
Oil on canvass
1237 x 1981 mm.
In the center of a harem scene (as traditionally depicted
by 19th century European painters) a woman with quite pale skin
lies across two Persian carpets. She is surrounded by women and
girls of tints from tan to ebony. None of them wear anything
below the neckline. Three of them are dressing the central
woman's auburn hair. Several are holding her wrists and ankles.
One at each armpit and one at each side of her waist are plucking
her hair with tweezers. The ones at her groin are about half
done, enough undone to show that she is even redder below than
above -- enough done to give us a view of the already plucked
lips. These are puffy, slightly spread, and aimed straight at
the viewer.
The Reason
1974
Trevor Harding
Parody
Acrylic on board
607 v 607 mm.
On the left is a face, despite being turned half away
from us and depicted in yellow, it is clearly recognizable as the
face from Munch's "Scream." On the right, reaching from the
right edge well past the center of the picture, painted in a
bright red and looking more plastic than flesh, is an enormous
phallus.
La Tache
[The Task]
Eduard Denude
1927
Landscape
Oil on canvas
620 x 235 mm.
A fissure leads upwards from the viewer on a vertical
face of whitish rock. Towards the top of the picture, the
fissure is blocked by a boulder of the same sort of rock. A much
smaller crevice splits the bottom two thirds of the boulder.
La Vallee
[The Valley]
1919
Eduard Denude
Landscape
Oil on canvas
540 x 325 mm.
A valley. The sides nearest us are bare and featureless.
Over those, we can see another -- verdant -- set of hills on
either side. In the center foreground, the far side of a hole or
tunnel just beginning. Beyond that, a spring. Beyond the
spring, the sides of the valley come together in more intricate
folds leading to a verdant hill just at the top of the
picture.
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