Two Mermaids (1918) by Gerda Wegener Size:30x40 cm / 12x16″ knowing gaze

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and unapologetically cosmic - Spacegirl #3 captures a futuristic heroine in vivid colour

This strongly lit image painted in luscious warm colours and bold brushstrokes does not shy from the fact we are here to study this man and understand the play of light across his naked form and be torn between the erotic charge and the academic nature of the life class

later famous as the face behind the Arrow Collar Man

Two Mermaids (1918) by Gerda Wegener Size:30x40 cm / 12x16″ knowing gazeGerda Wegeners Two Mermaids (1918), painted in watercolour and signed from Arcachon, is seaside fantasy with teeth beneath the pearls. Two mythic women perch together as a dark wave rises behind them: intimate, decorative and deliciously sapphic coded. The sitters are imagined, not securely identified, but Wegeners world was shaped by Lili Elbe, her spouse, muse and a defining figure in trans history. At a time when Wegeners erotic women and gender