We recently posted a nicely sensual
painting by the French painter Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée. Here,
however, is something which is much more blatantly erotic.
The Two Friends depicts two
women lying in bed, their legs arranged in the scissors position of tribades.
In fact, our friend S from Vancouver says that this position is
now not approved of by lesbian fundamentalists, who argue that it is a position
borne of male fantasy. If so, it is an old fantasy as there are many
pictures depicting women in this position which have been produced in the past centuries.
The blonde sprawls in ecstasy, legs
spread, while the brunette strokes her arm with her toes. Lagrenée's
couple are not actually depicted in the act but the position is hugely
suggestive and the hint of the blonde's pubic hair shows that this picture, which
is unlike anything else in Lagrenée's oeuvre, was painted either for
himself or, more likely, a private collector.
It was sold to another private
collector at Christies in 1997 for $115,000; more than twice the estimate.
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