Cardigone

ITO Jakuchu (1716~1800), Japan

c1975

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

Alice Neel, Hartley in Striped Shirt, 1984, Oil on canvas, 106.7 x 81.3 cm (42 x 32 inches), Xavier Hufkens Gallery

Acrylic and collage on wood panel . 20 x 30 in.

Four boys by the river, their bodies sunlit and bare, lounging in a choreography of leisure and latent desire. One plays the accordion; another reclines like a fallen angel. The scene hums with summer and suggestion—Lagrange’s brush tracing the contours of youth, complicity, and quiet provocation.

Esquire, 1934

Jamie Adams

This image was considered so wildly provocative in 1930s Japan, that it was banned from further publication, remaining prints being destroyed.

Cat with Snakes - Drawing by Deth P. Sun

Konrad Mägi (Estonian, 1878-1925), Landscape, 1915-16. Oil on cardboard, 49.5 × 65.5 cm.

Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards

by Tatsuro Kiuchi.

Hug

Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne (Ghanaian, 1983), JOLLY, 2021. Acrylic, fabric and African wax print on canvas, 205 x 149 cm.

Yokohama Station in the snow.  Tokyo, Japan