Smilby
Threesome One Guy and Three Girls - Playboy Cartoon, 1979
Ink and Watercolor on Illustration Board
17 1/4 × 13 1/4 × 1 in | 43.8 × 33.7 × 2.5 cm with frame included
$ 12,500.00
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In the present work, famed Playboy Cartoonist Smilby redefines what a 'Threesome' is. Here, a 'Threesome' represents three women for one man, not a total of three participants. Hence, we...
In the present work, famed Playboy Cartoonist Smilby redefines what a
"Threesome" is. Here, a "Threesome" represents three women for one man,
not a total of three participants. Hence, we see a very happy man
engaging in a ménage à quatre. The giveaway is the way he spells
"foreplay": it's "fourplay". Playboy Magazine was not simply a sex
magazine; it was always a men's leisure magazine that featured many of
the top writers and conceptual thinkers of the day. This work represents
that ideal as it transcends sex and enters a sophisticated realm of
concept art that requires intellectual effort to get the joke. Proving
that things are always better when we work for them.
One, Two, Three--, Playboy cartoon, February 1979
Ink and watercolor on board
13 x 9-1/4 inches (33.0 x 23.5 cm) (sight)
Framed size 17.25 x 13.25 - The work is elegantly framed in a high-end metal frame fronted with glass.
Signed lower right: Smilby
The
present work is published on page 221 in the February 1979 issue of
Playboy with the following caption: "One, two , three-- say this must be
the fourplay I've heard so much about."
Condition is mint and the work presents much better in person
"Threesome" is. Here, a "Threesome" represents three women for one man,
not a total of three participants. Hence, we see a very happy man
engaging in a ménage à quatre. The giveaway is the way he spells
"foreplay": it's "fourplay". Playboy Magazine was not simply a sex
magazine; it was always a men's leisure magazine that featured many of
the top writers and conceptual thinkers of the day. This work represents
that ideal as it transcends sex and enters a sophisticated realm of
concept art that requires intellectual effort to get the joke. Proving
that things are always better when we work for them.
One, Two, Three--, Playboy cartoon, February 1979
Ink and watercolor on board
13 x 9-1/4 inches (33.0 x 23.5 cm) (sight)
Framed size 17.25 x 13.25 - The work is elegantly framed in a high-end metal frame fronted with glass.
Signed lower right: Smilby
The
present work is published on page 221 in the February 1979 issue of
Playboy with the following caption: "One, two , three-- say this must be
the fourplay I've heard so much about."
Condition is mint and the work presents much better in person