{"id":407809,"date":"2026-08-25T00:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/?post_type=product&#038;p=407809"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:40:49","slug":"the-brothel-black-ink-light-virtues","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/artwork\/the-brothel-black-ink-light-virtues\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE BROTHEL&#8221;  &#8211;  Black Ink, Light Virtues  &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;THE BROTHEL&quot;<br \/>\n                                                   &#8211;  Black Ink, Light Virtues  &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>      On a white card-down, locked within a black-framed scope, there is\u2026 \u201cTHE BROTHEL\u201d.<br \/>\nBlack inkjet immaculate\u2026 And yes! \u2014 it is the drawing that interests us again, isn&#039;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The process is :  Encre noire (GFKP), encre de Chine on white  paper-card&#039;glassy*&quot;.  <\/p>\n<p>        This artwork is inspired by Picasso&#039;s engraving\u2026 <br \/>\nThe work belongs to a visual lineage extending from Degas&#039;s brothel monotypes through Picasso&#039;s late engagement with them. *\u00a0: <br \/>\nPablo Picasso liked the pastels of Edgar Degas.<br \/>\nThe work draws upon the visual memory of Edgar Degas&#039;s brothel monotypes and, more particularly, upon the fascination they exerted on Pablo Picasso. Between 1958 and 1960, Picasso acquired nine of Degas&#039;s brothel monotypes. More than a century after Degas&#039;s first explorations of this world, Picasso returned to it repeatedly, transforming the brothel into a strange theatre of bodies, desire, observation and artistic memory. <br \/>\nGirls waiting for the client, talking, washing themselves up&#8230; Complicit and immodest reproductions illustrating the world of brothels.<br \/>\n&quot;La F\u00eate de la Patronne&quot; 1878 Edgar Degas (&quot;a virtual hang-out, through Degas reproductions), with him in the brothels.<br \/>\nThis made Pablo Picasso want to replicate this atmosphere with a series of engravings on the theme of brothels. <br \/>\nAnd, this made me want to make my own .. &quot;Brothel&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cshameless, the vaporous women\u201d : <\/p>\n<p>Women with light virtues, dazed absinthe drinkers, &quot;braillerie&quot; and broken backs.<br \/>\nThe women appear almost to dissolve into the ink. Bodies emerge from fragments of line; faces disappear into shadow; legs, hands and torsos are caught between description and erasure. <br \/>\nThe drawing allows the brothel to be shown in broad daylight, and the concern here is the &quot;evocation&quot; of the atmosphere in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet&#039;s breathe the brothel\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medium :<br \/>\nBlack ink on white paper-card<\/p>\n<p>One-line statement :<br \/>\nA black-ink apparition of the brothel: bodies emerging from the line, dissolving into shadow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/artist\/frederic-monroe\/\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Monroe<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3213,"featured_media":407812,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"o","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[24,489],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/407809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=407809"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=407809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}