Carl Larsson, Swedish
Adult Film Star Answering Fan Mail On Her Lunch Break, 1906
Watercolor
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1628 (1/30/17)
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Swedish Wikipedia page has more).
/// Astrid needed a way to earn cash.
She encountered a man, bold and brash.
He had hopes she would pose
(photographed with no clothes).
He’d convince her to do something rash.
/// “Make French Postcards and you can be rich,
but you cannot be wearing a stitch.”
Astrid sat there all day
writing cards en français.
(She’s not bright and had misheard his pitch.)
/// Poor nude Astrid would try to forget
her “French postcards” which increased her debt.
Yet a woman of note
later read what she wrote:
They inspired the works of Colette.