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Vénus et la Mort

Venus and Death

Date: 1971–1972
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 210 × 280 cm
Period: Erotic, 1972 — 1975

Reproduced in Jean-Louis Ferrier’s L’Aventure de l’art au XXe siècle.

The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.

Erotic · 1972 — 1975

Twenty-three large paintings at the Galerie de Seine in 1972, catalogued by André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Etiemble. Mandiargues set him against Dalí that year in the formulation that stuck: the painter of the warm hand, against an ice-cold skill.

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