A nude woman takes a contraceptive pill given to her by a stork in a psychedelic landscape. Colour lithograph after N. Claveloux, 1970.

  • Claveloux, Nicole.
Date:
1970
Reference:
997496i
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Description

The stork holds out a basket full of contraceptive pills to the woman as she is about to place a pill on her tongue. She has flowers and birds in her hair, and stands in a psychedelic landscape of mountains, a river and flowers. The lettering above her head sits either side of a rainbow. The left side presents an ideal landscape in which the contraceptive pill is accepted. A church building has the pill as its finials. Nude figures emerge from the flowers, a rabbit in a flowery shirt eats one of the pills, and a white woman has sex with a black man. On the right side, where the pill is opposed, a flying cupid with a cornucopia of pills is opposed by a flag-waving (Latin American?) dictator, and the Pope gives his blessing to crowd of babies who attack a pill with staves

Publication/Creation

[Denmark] : A/S Minerva Reproduktioner, 1970 (Denmark)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 93.3 x 62 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Did you get your pill today? Nicole Claveloux Bears number 10 0489

Reference

Wellcome Collection 997496i

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