Nude female/dressed male
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The nude female/dressed male motif (as explored first of all in the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, but also in Cranach's versions of The Judgment of Paris, The Lunch on the Grass [1] by Edouard Manet, Attempting the Impossible [2]by Magritte and Phryné before the Areopagus [3] by Jean-Léon Gérôme) is a trope of eroticism.
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Other instances
- The American writer Eve Babitz gained notoriety by posing nude with a dressed Marcel Duchamp in 1963, at the Pasadena Art Museum[4].
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![[1]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Manet%2C_Edouard_-_Le_D%C3%A9jeuner_sur_l%27Herbe_%28The_Picnic%29_%281%29.jpg){kind=link}
![[2]](http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/magritte/magritte14.jpg){kind=link}
![[3]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Fryne_przed_areopagiem.jpg){kind=link}
![[4]](http://reconstruction.eserver.org/061/images/Fig1babitz.jpg){kind=link}