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Hermaphrodeity

Artist:Gene Szafran
Date:1974
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 24" x 36" Framed 31" X 43"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover art for Hermaphrodeity by Alan Friedman, Avon Books
Price: Sold
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The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right
The published artwork (included in sale)
The published artwork (included in sale)

Gene Szafran created this surreal, bold and wildly psychedelic painting for the cover of the 1973 paperback edition of  Hermaphrodeity – An Autobiography Of A Poet, by Alan Friedman, which was nominated for a National Book Award. The novel was an early exploration of non-binary gender identity, a topic that was starting to come into public consciousnesses as the sexual revolution and women’s rights movements began opening space for conversations about previously taboo topics surrounding the body and personal identity. The artist interpreted the protagonist (a hermaphrodite/deity, as it were) as a fragmented winged nude abstracted uni-sexed figure finding divinity in a seashell–a postmodern riff on Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus.
Painting is simply framed and a copy of the paperback book accompanies the illustration.

Framed view
Framed view

Hermaphrodeity

Artist: Gene Szafran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Gene Szafran, Hermaphrodite, lurid, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2018

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

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