Venus from the Rear: Standing nude by Augustus John

 Standing Nude (c. 1906)

Here is an artist with superb draughtsmanship demonstrating his craft on the female rear view.   Welsh artist Augustus John (1878-1961) showed particular ability at drawing from an early age.  As a teenager, in his drawing classes at the Slade School of Art, he was already recognised as one of the great draughtsman of his generation.  Oddly, this very facility counted against him in subsequent years when the art establishment found his style rather too academic.  Fortunately, more recently, his skill has become appreciated once more.

John produced very few nudes concentrating on landscapes and then,primarily, from the beginning of the century until World War 2, portraits.  Many of his portraits, such as his ones of TE Lawrence, are considered definitive, combing his observational skills, technical accomplishment and pyschological insight.

This coloured sketch, like the one above was torn into pieces by John himself in a fit of rage.  Fortunately, someone carefully gathered up and saved the pieces of these and the other ninety drawings he attacked at the same time.

 Portrait of Dorelia

Triple P is not aware of any finished painted nudes by John but this sketch (which is admittedly only attributed (although strongly) to John) shows the potential he would have had in this genre.  This small (11"x9") oil sketch is of his mistress, and later his wife, Dorothy (or Dorelia as she was known) McNeill (1881-1969).  She was no mistress on the side but lived in a ménage à trois with his wife Ida until the latter's death in 1907.  She then married John and stayed with him until his death, despite his many affairs, including one with Ian Fleming's mother who bore him a daughter, the noted cellist Amaryllis Fleming. John was also almost certainly the father of noted British TV director Tristan de Vere Cole who directed many episodes of two of Triple P's favourite eighties series, Howard's Way and Bergerac.  Dorelia was a friend and model of John's sister Gwen, a talented painter in her own right who became a model for, and lover, of Rodin.  Indeed, these days, as her brother once predicted, Gwen is probably now held in higher regard as an artist.

Augustus John

It is not known if the standing nude at the head of this post is Dorelia but it is quite possible given the period.   As a draughtsman John was particularly good at rendering hands and feet.  The way he handles the weight-bearing right foot in this picture is marvellous.

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Venus from the Rear: The Italian female culo by Serpieri

We have already looked at some of Italian comic-book artist Serpieri's illustrations over on our Seduction of Venus blog.

To tie in with our current theme featuring ladies (and, especially, Italian ladies) posteriors we thought we would post some more of his engagingly overripe figures.

Certainly as regards bottom worship Serpieri is to comic books what Tinto Brass is to cinema.  The fact that both are Italian cannot be a coincidence!

Most of these pictures are of his comic book heroine Druuna who has something of the nineteen sixties Playboy Playmate about her.

Certainly she has an most impressive bust/waist/hip ratio!

During the late nineteen eighties and early nineties Triple P spent a lot of time in Italy on business.  We had a number of Italian "girlfriends", for want of a better word, but most of them were slight in stature (Roman girls, we found, were often tiny) and we didn't particularly register any notable posteriors.

It wasn't until we spent a month in Rome one very hot August that we came across (so to speak) our first splendid Italian culo.  One Friday our Italian colleague had taken us to lunch with an Italian lady business woman (there were far more women involved in Triple P's area of business in Italy than in London, we should note).

It was extremely hot, around 100 degrees, and Triple P and his other colleague from London had been warned that after lunch, which we took on the terrace of her splendid house not far from the Coliseum, we would be required to swim in her pool (we had to take our swimming things with us) and that she would probably take her bikini top off.  Triple P remembered thinking that this didn't sound too arduous although our older colleague was terrified.

Indeed, everything happened just as Triple P's Italian colleague predicted and after really quite a lot of chilled red Frascati (which Triple P had never had before) we did end up in the pool with the topless business lady.  She was older that Triple P, who was in his late twenties, but probably only about forty although that seemed rather ancient to Triple P at the time!

Her body certainly didn't look old and she was only wearing a very tiny pair of high cut red bikini bottoms.  She was generously proportioned; not fat, just very curvy and whilst our colleague from London spent most of the afternoon trying not to look at her bust Triple P was enraptured by her behind (especially as she descended the steps into the pool), although sadly it was under the water most of the time.

Well, eventually Triple P's two colleagues left us to the not so tender mercies of this lady; they both had some convincing but fictitious reason to be elsewhere.  Triple P ended up staying the weekend and we were able to find out everything we wanted to about her splendid posterior, especially as she introduced us to what we subsequently discovered was called "reverse cowgirl".  This, we found, after some experimentation, satisfied both her desire to take the uppermost role (she was remarkably assertive) and satisfied ours to appreciate her fulsome derriere.

An altogether enjoyable experience (although not without its moments of abject terror, we have to admit - especially when she appeared in the bedroom with a large kitchen knife - to cut some figs it turned out) which these splendid drawings of Signor Serpieri bring back with rather wonderful clarity.

Sepieri's ability to render a female behind in pen and ink hatching is nothing short of miraculous and we can't think of another artist, outside classical ones, who can pull off this feat quite so well.

So we will finish with this, his finest example, in Triple P's view, of the Italian female culo.

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