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Owned By

Georgia Oliver

Created By

Daniel de Saint-Yon

New portrait of Otomè Efira (江 平 乙 女), my 17-year-old Japanese girlfriend, with her hesitant gestures when she dares to undress for the first time in front of me, shoulders uncovered, bare legs taking refuge under the sheet, shame that then covers her face, with a clear red glow colouring her cheeks when I give a kiss on her eyelids! “My dear Otomè, the ingenuous princess of Eden from the Goto islands, so dear to my heart, so painful for my being, I have always loved her without ever having touched her. Otomè, my little virgin of infinite beauty, trying to cover her small breasts like two pretty golden apples where all the tenderness of women matures" (Excerpt from my workshop diary for Thursday 30 September 1976).