Guerrilla Girls.
Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? Signed Poster. Long narrow lithographic poster printed in black and magenta on a yellow background, depicting Ingres's Grande Odalisque wearing a gorilla mask, signed, "XOXOX Guerrilla Girls 2001," in lower right corner, slightly faded, some signs of handling, 28 x 11 in.Formed in New York City in 1985, an anonymous group of female artists and feminists established Guerrilla Girls after picketing outside the Museum of Modern Art to protest the museum's miniscule holdings of women's art. By employing culture jamming to disrupt and subvert corporate advertising and sponsorship, they are famous for their provocative and humorous campaigns of wheat-pasted handbills and posters, their protests, and other pointed and defiant public communications, including the famous "weenie counts." The counts were carried out guerrilla-style, surveying the art on display in museum collections to objectively determine the ratio of men's to women's works.