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C. J. Bulliet The Courtezan Olympia
Covici, Friede 1930 Cloth Fair No Jacket Cloth
A fascinating book which puts names on the faces of the nude portraitures of famous artists and the lives they led together. (from page 141) "Rubens, too, had two wives, and they were his models. His magnificently voluptuous nudes attest their charms immortally. But there is none of the poignant tragedy in their stories we find in the romance of Rembrandt. Rubens was a big, good-natured, boisterous, handsome chap-healthily vulgar and proud of it. He had models galore, as later did Ronoir and Zorn. When he saw a robust, healthy young woman, full of the vigor of life, his impulse was to ask her to take off her clothes and let him paint her-an invitation that is accepted perhaps as often as not when the right man makes it in the right tone of voice." Damn, why did I decide to be a bookseller? If I asked a lady to take off her clothes so I could sell her a book, I'd be locked up in the funny farm! But if a painter does it...well....I guess its okay. Buy this book so you can ponder the mysteries of life.
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6.00 USD
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