These simple but sensual line drawings are by the French artist Albert Marquet (1875-1947), so they entered the public domain yesterday. Born in Bordeaux, he moved to Paris at the
age of fifteen, to attend the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, where he was a
roommate of Matisse, with whom he became a lifelong friend.
Although usually called a Fauvist. his
paintings were less violent in colour and more naturalistic. Based in Paris, he travelled widely to North
Africa, Italy and Northern Europe, painting his favourite subject; rivers and
coastal scenes.
He also painted some nudes and produced a number of
erotic sketches, such as these masturbating girls and the girl spreading her thighs. We will look at his other erotic work on The
Seduction of Venus another time.
In the top picture and the one immediately above, Marquet's lady is well into the throes of passion
here, her delicate frigging causing her to cover her eyes in ecstasy.
There is something very wonderful about the depiction of beautiful girls pleasuring themselves
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