July 8th, 2011
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Author: Most of us know DH Lawrence for his many great books, including Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Women in Love and The Rainbow.
The English novelist, however, also had a passion for painting, and in 1929 held a show at London’s Dorothy Warren Gallery.
Like his books, Lawrence’s paintings, complete with bare breasts and genitals, caused a stir, eventually leading Scotland Yard to ban 13 of them for being “indecent.”
Nine of those paintings are now held at La Fonda Hotel in Taos, New Mexico, where Lawrence and wife Frieda lived for a number of years.
Writing about his art, Lawrence remarked, “A picture lives with the life you put into it. If you put no life into it — no thrill, no concentration of delight or passion of visual discovery — then the picture is dead…”
I couldn’t find images of all of the paintings at the hotel, but have included a few after the jump, including a male semi-nude that is possibly one of the sexiest images I have ever seen. This comes as no surprise, though, because if you know Lawrence, you know he had an eye for the male body.
Check out the possibly NSFW paintings, AFTER THE JUMP…
This is the one I absolutely adore. It’s just so subtly sexy.
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