Sometimes there were more explicitly sexual elements, and these caused a minor scandal as early as 1934, when he had his first one-man show at the Galerie Pierre in Paris. Though never wholly discarded, the element of erotic provocation became more oblique in his later work. My little model is absolutely untouchable to me. Some American journalist said he found my work pornographic. Everything now is pornographic.
Advertising is pornographic.
You see a young woman putting on some beauty product who looks like she's having an orgasm. I've never made anything pornographic. Except perhaps The Guitar Lesson . That large painting, exhibited in the 1934 show at the Galerie Pierre, depicts a girl naked below the waist and slumped over the knees of a bare-breasted woman, who evidently is her teacher. A guitar is on the floor and a piano is in the background.