TRACE FANTASY
Anonymous Erotic Art from the 1960s
Mingling the immediacy of pulp fiction illustration, the mystery of outsider art & the strange voyeuristic thrill of peeking at anonymous fantasies, our May show features circa 1960s drawings on tracing paper by an unknown artist. They were discovered in a box amid amateur erotic Polaroids from the 1960s, pinup magazines from the same period & unsigned manuscript pages of erotic pulp-like stories. At their simplest, they are tracings & sketches of the nude women that populated underground comics & girlie magazines of that time. However, looking beyond the whimsical, lesbian-oriented content of these drawings, there is something in the lines, the negations & the choice of color that suggests an intent above the mere recording of perversities. The lines are often wonderfully sensuous, the expressions comically striking & the layout is so perfectly random that it makes you wonder if this unknown artist ever created anything more than traced fantasies.
April 29 to May 24, 2010
© 2010
ampersand vintage
all rights reserved
Artist Unknown
circa 1960s
graphite & color pencil
on tracing paper
11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
$375 each --- purchase here.
price includes archival framing, as shown
(framed dimension is 14 x 18 in.)
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