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Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
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Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)

Fireside Interior and Nude

Details
Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
Fireside Interior and Nude
with studio stamp (on the reverse)
image-object (collage on card), unframed
12 x 15 in. (30.4 x 38.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1937.
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Lot Essay

Most of Jennings's collages date back to 1934 to 1936. The fantasmatic link between fire (flames in a fireplace) and woman (especially nude) is quite a familiar theme in his collages and photographs, open to many associations of ideas related to the theme of passion and eroticism. In this collage, the gap between the two images and the subsequent precipitation of the two images against, and into, each other, intensify the powerful erotic tension inherent in the waiting before the act.

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