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April 19th, 2018 
Awake Goy 
Henri Gervex (1852 – 1929) was a French painter who became rather popular with the Salon scene of Paris. He is best known for his female nudes, portraits, and society scenes.Although he was a well-respected artist who was entrusted to paintings for public buildings, Gervex was still something of a a controversial painter during his time.
Gervex’s most controversial picture was Rolla (1878; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux), refused by the Salon of 1878 on grounds of indecency, partly because of the cast-off corset Degas had insisted he include. The painting shows the central character in a de Musset poem, Jacques Rolla, who, having dissipated his family inheritance, casts a final glance at the lovely sleeping form of the prostitute Marion before hurling himself out of the window. As his friend, Manet, had done the year before with his rejected Nana, Gervex exhibited his work in a commercial gallery, with great success. (source)
It certainly goes to show much concepts of “decency” have changed in such a short period of time, as we now have pornographic content normalized for children.
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