[Frans de GEETERE]. Spasmes, not sold anywhere: "This collec - Lot 231

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[Frans de GEETERE]. Spasmes, not sold anywhere: "This collec - Lot 231
[Frans de GEETERE]. Spasmes, not sold anywhere: "This collection of twelve etchings was printed at 150 copies, that is to say: one copy on different papers containing all the original drawings and states of the etchings, numbered 1; and 149 copies on vellum of the Papeteries d'Arches, numbered from 2 to 150 (n° 20)". One of the 149 copies on vellum of the Papeteries d'Arches, plates only, without the portfolio. The author's argument is worth quoting: "I do not hope to seduce, with the plates of this collection, the lovers of libertine prints. This is not their usual delight. There is nothing, in these etchings, of the grivoiseries which perhaps serve them as excitation. One does not see there the sweet romps dear to the idealists of pornography, nor the white and pink sweetmeats, which well-bred onanists collect, nor these organs so carefully washed with bidet water that one could believe them to be of porcelain. The love that I represented is not so distinguished. I left to the desire its anxieties, its violences and its spasms, because it is undoubtedly there that its true poetry is. I would be remiss if I tried to please people who imagine love as a sexual kindness, and its representation as the sign of a meeting house." Dutel 2449.
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