This group did an amazing job at recreating Frazetta's work. It helps that, as many people have commented on the flickr page already, that the woman in the shot is not only beautiful and curvaceous, but is also strikingly Frazetta-esque figure and matches the obalisque in the original painting remarkably closely.
I recently read E.R. Burroughs' 1912 novel A Princess of Mars. Frazetta did cover art and insets for a number of these works years after their initial serialization and publication. I was lucky enough to find an illustrated copy of the book in a near-by library's Special Collections. Both the illustration of the princess mentioned in the title of the book, Dejah Thoris, as well as E.R.B's description of her came to mind when I saw Zagreb911's photo.
- "And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life... Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect.
- She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure."
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