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Looks like a photograph until you realise it was painted by hand on an enormous, unprimed canvas. π¨
The woman in the painting, IrΓ¨ne Staub, better known as Lady Shiva, was a Zurich model, muse, and high-class sex worker. Rising from street prostitution in the 70s, she became one of the most recognisable figures of the underground art & counterculture scene. π¨π