Pressing up against the window of a small Parisian art gallery one cold winter’s day in December 1917, the crowds could hardly believe their eyes.There, prominently displayed on an easel for all to see, was a portrait of a naked and very voluptuous young woman — and this was no coy Renaissance nude of the kind depicted by such masters as Titian, Raphael and Botticelli.This model was shown in all her full anatomical glory including, controversially, her body hair. That was something almost never seen in art up until that point, and certainly not on public display in a street full of shoppers.
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