Matisse bronze “Back IV” sold by Christies for $48 million, Nov 2010ArtTracker| This is how crazy culture is about women’s backsides. After writing that Wonderbum is offering women a new dress guaranteed to transform their bottoms into juicy nectarines, tomatoes, pears and one shapely potato (which we don’t comprehend at all), we now post that Christies sold a Matisse bronze nude for $48.8 million at auction last week.

Matisse created a series of four of the bronze reliefs, what some consider his most ambitious sculptural work. between 1908 and 1931. “Back IV” was expected to bring $25 million to $35 million.

If fashion screams “x-rated and cancelled” to women who are bootylicious, someone in the art world, represented by Gagosian Gallery, likes “les fesses”.

Perhaps it’s no accident that John Currin’s robust paintings of voluptuous, sexy nudes, now showing at the Gagosian in New York, highlight modern culture’s total ambivalence about the size of female body parts.

Matisse found women’s bodies awesome. Picasso, on the other hand, cut them up into smaller bites.

No wonder women are confused. We want to bang our heads against the wall somedays, too, just like Matisse’s “Back IV”.

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Checking what’s hot and what’s not in article, we notice that Gail Porter’s story has moved into the top 15. I believe it’s worth reading how Porter showed her potato buttom to the world, after once being a famous nectarine. You go girl!