Walther Gamerith, Austrian
Winifred Had Taken To Sleeping in Formal Wear Just in Case She Had That Dream About the Met Gala Again, 1936
Oil on canvas
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Info, and perhaps links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (if truncated, can be read in full for free on Fridays), and here (Google translated), perhaps in addition to what’s in his Google translated German Wikipedia page.
/// Walther asked his wife Grete to pose.
She said, “OK, but this time in clothes.
And the stance, for God’s sake,
better not make me ache.
I’ll re-pose on the couch in repose.”
/// Grete’s shape comes from sources genetic,
(and, to some extent, that she’s athletic).
What she wears, though, is based
on her personal taste.
To the non-nude, be more sympathetic!
/// The couch Grete reposed on was blue,
and her dress and her headscarf were, too.
The scene simply oozed
with blue tints Walther used,
lest a viewer, his mood, misconstrue.
/// He’d arranged his wife’s limbs in a tangle,
with each joint at a nearly right angle,
and said, “Hold this pose— freeze.”
then her muscles would seize
and she’d dream of ways husbands can strangle.
/// This warped pose, Grete first had resisted,
but the painter had firmly insisted.
She said, “I will, if you
paint while bent like this, too!”
Which he did— proving both spouses twisted.