Devil Showing Woman to the People | Otto Greiner | c. 1897 Select Size:32" x 32" exuding a sense of malice

exuding a sense of malice and predation

from celestial beings to otherworldly flora and fauna

and the quiet dignity of suffering

Depicting Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau

surrealist imagination

Devil Showing Woman to the People | Otto Greiner | c. 1897 Select Size:32" x 32" exuding a sense of maliceAbout the artwork: Otto Greiners Devil Showing Woman to the People (also known by its German title Die Feilbietung) is a provocative fin de sicle work in which the artist channels Symbolist concerns about morality, temptation, and the gaze into a striking composition where a diabolical figure parades a woman before an audience, implicating both the woman and the onlookers in an unsettling spectacle. While concrete scholarship on this specific piece is