For example, the demand for frontal nudes is generally much stronger than back views - in other words, breasts are favoured over bottoms! This got me pondering about the oil, right, by Harry Holland (b. 1941). Entitled Six, the 5ft 6in x 3ft 11in (1.68 x 1.20m) work is featured in the Summer Show at the Albemarle Gallery in London's Albemarle Street, until September 11.
Priced £18,750, it combines both front and back female forms and with its obvious eroticism is surely a highly commercial image.
Where the money is...
IN The Sunday Telegraph of July 25, Sarah Jane Checkland offered that old chestnut “what paintings sell”. Much of the analysis was predictable – “paintings of women and children outstrip those of men and the younger and more attractive the better” and “prospects are grim for dead animals”. However, a few results of her survey were more intriguing.