Threesome Swingers Cocktail Party 1970s Playboy Cartoon, 1974

If anyone has ever put pen to paper and tried to draw a face or a figure with any level of success, then you know how hard it is to do. Cartoonists are first conceptual artists for hire, but moreover, they are great technicians with deep academic training. Dink Siegel is at the top of the list of great figurative painters. With a few lines and a dash, a color, his complex figurative compositions come to life. Siegel makes it look so easy. In this 1970s cocktail party, he packs the picture with people, and yet each expression and body gesture successfully
contributes to his cinematic narrative. In this work, two storylines are unfolding simultaneously. The blond joyful recounts her "Threesome" experience to a slightly older woman. The reaction on the woman's face is shock and skepticism, which is the cartoon's punchline.
In the lower left-hand corner, the same scene plays out, but the reaction of a younger woman appears to be potentially more favorable.
The caption reads: "Well, we feel that what three people do in the privacy of their own bedroom is their business and no one else's..
Signed lower right.
Playboy Magazine, January 1974
Watercolor, Gouache on Illustration Board
Size 11 1/2 - 9 in
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