During my recent visit to Hamburg I have discovered an interesting painter Félix Vallotton whose painting "Black and white" is shown here. It is quite masterful variation on Claude Monet's "Olympia" which I always loved, except that this one is completely irreverent - not a black servant but a smoking woman looking at white girl with almost a disdain (desire?). Although he was previously unknown to me, Vallotton seems to have been quite a talented and prolific artist and I truly like several of his paintings. This one I saw in Hambsburg's Kunsthalle and it did stop me in tracks literary. It is very sensuous and sexy painting, the contrast between women's skin suggesting almost erotic overtones or this is simply what I sense in it.
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