Lot Essay
This print is number 18 from an edition of 25
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The Most Beautiful Part of a Man's Body, 1986
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DUANE MICHALS (b. 1932)
The Most Beautiful Part of a Man's Body, 1986
gelatin silver print, mounted on card
signed, titled, numbered and inscribed 'I think it must be there/Where the torso sits on and into the hips/Those twin delineating curves Feminine in grace, girdling the trunk/Guiding the eye downwards/To their intersection/the point of pleasure' in ink (in the margin, recto).
image 4¾ x 7¼in. (12.1 x 18.4cm.)
sheet 11 x 13½in. (27.9 x 34.3cm.)
The Most Beautiful Part of a Man's Body, 1986
gelatin silver print, mounted on card
signed, titled, numbered and inscribed 'I think it must be there/Where the torso sits on and into the hips/Those twin delineating curves Feminine in grace, girdling the trunk/Guiding the eye downwards/To their intersection/the point of pleasure' in ink (in the margin, recto).
image 4¾ x 7¼in. (12.1 x 18.4cm.)
sheet 11 x 13½in. (27.9 x 34.3cm.)