Sunday 31 December 2017

Masturbating Venuses by Albert Marquet



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.



2 comments:

  1. There is something very wonderful about the depiction of beautiful girls pleasuring themselves

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    1. Especially when, as here, you know they were drawn from life.

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