The Arm of Don Juan

Harold Stevenson has created a body of work that explores the human figure as an erotic form. Through the monumentality of its construction, the male form is represented here as a sensual landscape. At the same time, the grid suggested by the diptych panels tends to enhance the abstract quality of the image and focuses attention on the structure and tones of each section. It is these odd juxtapositions of the artist’s objective and subjective impressions that makes this figure study so memorable.