An Interwar Venus

From yesterday's Venus de' Medici to today's bathing beauty from the 1920s. Titled Sea Anemones, this watecolour—redolent of Botticell's Venus—forms part of our new collection of early 20th-century postcard artwork—images for mass circulation, capturing an interwar zeitgeist of optimism, glamour and recreation. The depiction of the ideal female form enduring in Western culture.