Venyx × Man Ray: Large Gold Venus Restored Necklace Grace McCann Morley When the Spanish sailed up

When the Spanish sailed up the western coast of North America

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the artist juxtaposes everyday domesticity with allusions to our secret selves and reveals the uncanny within the banal through exaggerated form and saturated color

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Lichtenstein had begun working in ceramics in 1964

Venyx × Man Ray: Large Gold Venus Restored Necklace Grace McCann Morley When the Spanish sailed upDesigned by Eugenie Niarchos for Venyx World, this large pendant necklace was inspired by Man Rays plaster sculpture Vnus restaure (Venus Restored, 1936), a Surrealist icon modeled after the Medici Venus. Man Ray rectified the form of the first century BCE original by twining rope around its body in a fetishistic allusion to the Marquis de Sade, subversively combining a long celebrated symbol of feminine beauty with a paean to erotic mischief. In this