Bath Houses Under the Cliffs (1874) by Louise Abbéma Style:Wood frame but Leyendecker’s male ideal was

but Leyendecker’s male ideal was shaped by Charles Beach

Lavine collides two worlds - Looney Tunes’ spacefaring duck and a Golden Age supervillain - into a single

this oil painting print radiates queer beauty and strength

the “abduction” reads less like a hero’s tale and more like women-centred theatre: pleasure

Bath Houses Under the Cliffs (1874) by Louise Abbéma Style:Wood frame but Leyendecker’s male ideal wasLouise Abbmas Bath Houses Under the Cliffs (1874) catches a seaside afternoon before it performs for anyone: white bathing huts, dark cliffs, tiny figures and weather rolling in. Painted when Abbma was just beginning her public career, it is one of two beach scenes catalogued by Bonhams as oil on paper laid down on canvas. No known lover or sitter is attached; the queer charge sits with Abbma herself, a Belle poque artist who lived openly as a lesbian