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Les femmes fatales

1933

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The story

Gerda Wegener's favorite model was Lili Elbe, and the Paris art world learned that the muse behind her petite femmes fatales was her own spouse. In Paris she also painted women in seductive poses that critics called lesbian erotica, sold through illicit art books.

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Object details

Title: Les femmes fatales
Artist: Gerda Wegener
Date: 1933
Culture: Danish
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Private collection (sold at Sotheby's, London, 2019)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0512
Original image: 2000 × 1866 px
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License evidence: See the license

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Gerda Wegener. Les femmes fatales. 1933. Private collection (sold at Sotheby's, London, 2019). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0512/