Venyx × Man Ray: Small Gold Venus Restored Necklace Lucy Bradnock Curtiss draws on a history

Curtiss draws on a history of figuration that ranges from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French painting and the work of the Chicago Imagists to the popular imagery of comic books and manga

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Venyx × Man Ray: Small Gold Venus Restored Necklace Lucy Bradnock Curtiss draws on a historyDesigned by Eugenie Niarchos for Venyx World, this delicate 18 karat gold pendant necklace was inspired by Man Rays plaster sculpture Vnus restaure (Venus Restored, 1936), a Surrealist icon modeled after the Medici Venus. Man Ray rectified the form of the first century BCE original by twining rope around its body in a fetishistic allusion to the Marquis de Sade, subversively blending a long celebrated symbol of feminine beauty with a paean to erotic