John Currin: Little Nude Distributed Art Publishers of painting on marble fragments

of painting on marble fragments sourced from quarries in Hydra

This book was published on the occasion of Picasso’s Picassos: A Selection from the Collection of Maya Ruiz-Picasso at Gagosian

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Bacon: Couplings at Gagosian

and the second making direct reference to religious iconography

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John Currin: Little Nude Distributed Art Publishers of painting on marble fragmentsWith inspirations as diverse as old master portraits, 1950s pinup photography, pornography, and B movies, John Currin produces challengingly perverse images of women, from lusty nymphs to dour matrons. Little Nude evinces his use of classical compositional techniques to portray highly charged social and sexual taboos. Consistent throughout his work is the search for the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque are held in perfect balance.