Eugène Delacroix. Women of Algiers in their Apartment. 1834. Oil on canvas. 180 × 229cm. Louvre.
Apparently, Fox News is a bigger fan of Delacroix or digital burkas.
A leading US art critic has blasted a Fox news station for being "sexually sick" after the network blurred out the breasts on Pablo Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version O) in a report about the masterpiece selling for a record-breaking $US179million ($227million) in New York on Monday
The New York magazine senior art critic Jerry Saltz took to Twitter to voice his disapproval, tweeting: "How sexually sick are conservatives & Fox News? They blurred parts of the Picasso painting #SickMinds."
Between 1954 and 1963 Picasso produced several series of variotions on Old Master paintings including reworkings of Edouard Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass, Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas and Jocques-Louis David's (1748-1825) The Rape of the Sabine Women. The first of these series, however, examined Eugene Delacroix's (1798-1863) Women of Algiers (1834), Picasso produced 15 oils based on this work in a frenzied period of activity in the winter of 1954-55.
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