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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Although French artist Francis Picabia’s work from the late 1940s such as [1], [2] (and its source here, notice a similar method to John Currin's Rotterdam), [3], [4], which borrowed generously from soft-core pornography, is a more likely candidate for the Icons of erotic art series, today I wish to celebrate an his entirely unerotic 1915 work: Portrait of an American Girl in the Nude[5], a drawing which depicts a bolt which is supposed to represent Agnes Meyer. It is is a satirical homage to the machine age and the American pin up girl. [6].
Image source Lemateurdart and K-Punk.