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This item appeared on pp. 148 of the January 1967 issue Playboy magazine as part of the pictorial "The Playmate as Fine Art: Eleven contemporary artists interpret Playboy's provacative gatefold girl" with the caption, "Like Ben Johnson, Leslie believes that American puritanism has discouraged nudity even in fine art: "If the objectivity of the American colonial painter John Singleton Copley had been applied to a nude," Leslie told PLAYBOY, "he would have been burned as a warlock."
PROVENANCE Lot 112 "The Year of the Rabbit: The Playboy Collection," Christie's New York, December 8, 2010
LITERATURE Arthur Paul, Beyond Illustration: The Art of Playboy, (Chicago: Playboy Magazine, 1971), catalogue accompanying an exhibition that traveled in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan between 1971 and 1974.
EXHIBITED Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C., "En Grisaille: American Paitings, 1901-1981," November 7, 1987 - December 9, 1987.
60 x 40 inches
PROVENANCE Property From the Playboy Archives
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