Before there were DMs or selfies, there were watercolour self-portraits, and an American artist boldly used one to send a sensual painting to her lover.

While still a student at Glasgow School of Art, she painted Propped, 1992, one of the most challenging and memorable female nudes in the history of art (pictured below right). This enormous painting ...

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Jacques Villon Portait de Suzanne D, 1913 etching in black on Arches Prints & Graphic Art ...