eroticism stencil engraving by BETTINA SMITH
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), French aristocrat and writer of works concerning sexual freedom;Nocturnal Feast at the Marquis de Sade’s at the End of the Eighteenth Century,colour litho.
Paris: Ca. 1920. Print. Seperatly published, fabulous erotic French pochoir color illustration. A debauched dinner party with 12 participants and champagne and glasses on the table in the foreground. The women in various stages of undress. Lithograph print with pouchoir color, an intensive process that uses stencils to apply the vibrant color. Approx 30×22.5cm（Print ontology 14.5×24cm）. Very good condition.
this illustration is a separaly printed “debauched dinner”, multiple lithograph print with “pouchoir” coloured. the author is Bettina SMITH.
Jean-Pierre DUTE Collection
About Bettina SMITH
German-born, Paris- and New York-based artist Bettina Blohm paints gouache and acrylic works that rely on their lyricism to affect the viewer. Her designs are simple but never simplistic; the resolutely abstract works may stem, as she puts it, from “something seen,” but she takes care to “collect visual ideas” and produces colorful, emotionally compelling paintings through rhythm and repetition.
While her art can come close to whimsy, and her abstraction shows that she is a good student of the New York School, there remains in her paintings a possibly European-based restraint, which gives them a certain seriousness even when they are light-hearted to a high degree. Indeed, the tension between earnest intention and whimsical enthusiasm is central to her art.
