Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz, Polish
The Forgotten Marx Brother, Speedo, 1885
Oil and goache on canvas
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1330 (10/28/15)
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in her Wikipedia page (Google translated Polish Wikipedia page has more).
/// Here’s a Semi-nude Male, (no I.D.).
Is he padding his briefs? It could be.
A Case Study is shown
of a face we have known.
Looks like Zappa, without his goatee.
/// Painted back in eighteen eighty-five,
when Frank Zappa was not yet alive,
the male model cavorts
in his skintight red shorts,
but from what does that hairstyle derive?
/// He is one of those odd hodgepodge sights
where each disparate feature unites:
Zappa’s face, Groucho’s hair,
and red shorts one would wear
dressed as Superman, over blue tights.
/// The real Zappa was far from a ten.
He was not the most well-built of men.
He was skinny, and scarier,
and his body much hairier.
Were the Poles doing “manscaping” then?
/// Speedo left the Marx Brothers back then
and was never billed with them again.
Even rubes in the sticks
knew that Chico loved chicks,
but they’d hate to learn Speedo loved men.