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Gaspana "Gus" Ricca

With irreverent humor, this original oil-on-board painting shows a horned satyr smoking a pipe distracted from his reading by a nude figure in the foreground.  Dating to 1929-1930, when Ovid’s Ars amatoria was in the news quite a bit, with the city of San Francisco’s ban of the Ars amatoria in 1929 and its legalization for […]

The Book of Ovid

Artist: Gaspano "Gus" Ricca

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, fantasy, Gaspana "Gus" Ricca, glamour, Golden Age, illustration, jazz age, New York, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, satyr
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2018

 

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