Femme Élégante (c.1920) by Gerda Wegener Size:40x60 cm / 16x24″ and knowingly over the top

and knowingly over the top in the best possible way

Is he brooding

Created as the Saturday Evening Post cover for April 11

Leyendecker’s Great War Victory (1918) turns the end of war into a sacred stage

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Femme Élégante (c.1920) by Gerda Wegener Size:40x60 cm / 16x24″ and knowingly over the topGerda Wegeners Femme lgante (c. 1920), an oval watercolour with gold paint, is glamour with a blade tucked in its glove. The sitter is unidentified, but the look belongs to Wegeners Paris world: fashion illustration, Art Deco surfaces and women who knew exactly how to be looked at. Behind that gaze sits Lili Elbe Wegeners spouse, muse and a defining figure in trans history. At a time when Wegeners erotic women and gender play scandalised polite