Marcel Mariën
La Pudeur (Modesty), 1984
Signed 'Märien' and dated '1984' (lower right); titled 'la pudeur' (lower left)
Gelatin silver print
24 by 17.7 cm (9½ by 7 in.)
69392
Executed in 1984. Paying homage to fellow Surrealist artists including René Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, La Pudeur (Modesty) evokes Man Ray’s fragmented and disembodied nudes, while the prominence...
Executed in 1984. Paying homage to fellow Surrealist artists including René Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, La Pudeur (Modesty) evokes Man Ray’s fragmented and disembodied nudes, while the prominence and placement of the large flower, concealing the subject’s genitalia, serves as a visual pun and cheeky reference to the work’s title.