oil paintings? esp. TickleChgo!

[munchausen]

Hi--found this old post, and I'm wondering if anyone has the scans it talks about:



DOES ANYONE KNOW THE ORIGINS OF THESE PAINTINGS?

Once upon a time, long before there was an ASFT and ABMET, back in the
Seventies, those of us into tickling used to trade whatever limited
tickling erotica that existed, via snail mail. At that time, amidst
many tickling cartoons someone sent me a photocopy of three snapshots.
The photos were of three oil paintings each depicting a scene of
tickle torture. Incredibly detailed, they were obviously painted by a
skilled artist. One of them has the date of 1963. The others are
undated.

I have been trying for years to trace their origins. They were either
painted by someone into the scene or commissioned by a wealthy patron
with a tickling fetish. I have heard several rumors regarding them.
One rumor says they are part of a special erotica collection that
resides in a non-public part of the Louvre. Another rumor is that they
belonged to Andy Warhol's private erotica collection (which was
auctioned off after his death).

I have scanned the three images and they follow in the next three
posts. Because my photocopy is very old and has started to flake and
peel, I apologize for the quality. I re-touched them the best I could
in PhotoShop. What follows is a description of each of the paintings.

1) Oriental Stocks (M/F) [OrStx.jpg]: This shows a lovely Oriental
woman locked in stocks with an old Chinese man patiently tickling her
feet with a feather. This is the one that is dated '63 and has the
initials of the artist.

2) Tickle Dungeon 1 (F/M) [TD1.jpg] This painting shows a male
stretched on a rack in what looks like a medieval dungeon. A woman is
at his feet tickling him with a feather while another stands by
watching with a whip in her hands.

3) Tickle Dungeon 2 (FF/M) [TD2.jpg] This one is the hardest to make
out because the toner started to flake off the photo copy. Once again,
there is a guy tied to a massive slanted wooden platform. His feet are
lashed to a metallic T-shaped bar. There are three women in this
scene... they look dressed like French courtesans. One woman is seated
in a chair and is non-chalantly tickling his sole with a feather or
artist's brush, while another woman in the foreground is laughing
gleefully at the scene. If you look closely, you can barely make out
the third woman, kneeling between his outstretched legs and is deeply
sucking something (!) <eg> while he laughs uproariously from the
foot-tickling.

Does anyone out there have any knowledge as to the true origins of
these paintings? Who painted them and where are the originals today?
Does anyone have any better copies of the photos? Please share with
the newsgroup or e-mail me.

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(Thanks to TickleChgo for posting these to the newsgroup for me)

 

[Oddjob0226]

Not that this really helps, but that second picture, and - I think - even that 3rd one, I have seen the black and white scans on a Yahoo group about a year ago(they ARE bad). I think it was the "tickling cartoons group", "tickling art", "tickle drawings"... something like that. The artwork looks more to me like very good pen and ink work, maybe B&W... kind of like the style of Bill Ward (not so exaggerated), or Enig. Not "fine art" per se, more of a really good, very detailed and lifelike cartoon, and probablly not oils - but I don't know this....

I have heard that there was a guy , who was wealthy, and very into tickling, who started collecting such stuff back in the 1930s. Maybe this came from his collection. He actaully underwent psychological treatment, so the story goes, for his obsession and this collection is rumored to be in a university's psych department library or reference collection. Sorry, I read about this guy in 1994 in letters I got from another tickler I corresponded with, so my memory is a little faulty.

 

[Oddjob0226]

I found out a little more bout these things.....read on....


>>>>>>
The photos were of three oil paintings each depicting a scene of
tickle torture. Incredibly detailed, they were obviously painted by a
skilled artist. One of them has the date of 1963. The others are
undated.

I What follows is a description of each of the paintings.

1) Oriental Stocks (M/F): This shows a lovely Oriental
woman locked in stocks with an old Chinese man patiently tickling her
feet with a feather. This is the one that is dated '63 and has the
initials of the artist. <<<<<<<


O.K., now my thoughts.... I really don't think these belonged to anyone of note, either the Louvre or Andy Warhol. While these depictions were done by a skilled artist, I'm not so sure they were oil paintings, they just look tocharacitured and seem rather recently done, even. But there's more. TRexx has this above Xeroxed image ("Oriental Stocks") on his Yahoo Group Ticklish Asian Women 3. I looked at the signature. This "date" 63 looks more like part of the signature. Take a closer look - the artist signed his name in a a very squiggly style - it looks like a different language, even alphabet! I think the artist signed his name in an Indina language (like Hindi), or something Arabic (like Farsi) or even using an Asian alphabet. The signature is very strange, and when you check it out, it looks like there is no date in the sig at all, it's actually a part of the person's name, and he apparently is Mid Eastern or Asian. So the mystery goes on.....