A nude man posing as a classical statue. Photograph by Henry, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Reference:
2046173i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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A nude man posing as a classical statue. Photograph by Henry, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Photograph of a man standing on a plinth holding a scroll or spear handle wearing a fig leaf over his genitals.

Publication/Creation

Paris : AN [Alfred Noyer], [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 13.5 x 8.7 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Bears number: 199

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "An unidentified competitor in a male beauty pageant or bodybuilding competition. He is posed as a classical statue on a plinth, and is wearing Greco-Roman sandals. The fig-leaf has been added. Typical of the kind of explicitly sexual imagery that became associated with Paris in the 1920s and 1930s."

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2046173i

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  • Unlabelled photograph album

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