Hedonistic Hell

Signed, "Rodriguez"
Oil on canvas
Circa: 1940-1950
Size: 23 1/4" (h) x 31 3/8" (w) (sight)
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This extraordinary and ambitious painting is by an unidentified painter named, "Rodriguez" (signed lower right).

The hedonistic painting illustrates several nude women embracing a capital vice (lust, vanity, greed, wrath, sloth, and envy) while a gluttonous man drinks wine and gorges on watermelon bananas.

The cavernous landscape hints at death with grottos that mimic the shape of human skulls with dark, vacant eye sockets.

While not all the vignettes are precise, which sin they portray, some like the woman transforming into a Jaguar in front of a bifurcated snake is quite remarkable—as is the woman straddled on a large flying dragon.

The whole has the feeling of Gustave Dore illustrations for Dante’s Inferno and The Divine Comedy.

HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES AVAILABLE.

Condition: Excellent with minor, scattered in-painting. Previously mounted to masonite, now relined onto canvas. Conservation by Simon Parkes.

Price: $18,000.00

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