No. 308: “Radical Women,” and “Casanova”
🖼️ Miscellaneous antique erotic art ✨
1. Achille Devéria, 1830
2. Gustave Courbet, “The Origin of the World”, 1866
3. Chinese porcelain tile, 19th century
4. Anonymous, 1799
5. Rudolfo Valentino, “Tango Dancers”, 1930. Painted terra-cotta.
6. Gustave Courbet, “The... See more
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In 2004, when MoMA reopened in a then-new glass-and-steel campus, only 5 percent of the art on view in the permanent collection was by women. Today, the museum estimates that 28 percent of the works on view are by women, and 21 percent by artists outside of Western Europe, the U.S., and Canada — that’s gigantic for MoMA, modernism, and art.