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"'Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female,' reads the poster, next to a female nude whose head is covered by the group's trademark gorilla mask. The figure is based on the painting La Grande Odalisque, 1814, by male painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres."

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250530-how-controversial-activist-group-guerrilla-girls-blazed-a-trail-in-the-art-world