Many of Axell's works are self-portraits, though she often obscured her identity by signing only with her last name.
Mandatory Credit: Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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This 1960s trailblazer of erotic pop art died just as she was finding fame
Throughout Evelyne Axell’s short but radical career, the Belgian artist revered the female body in psychedelic hues rendered in gleaming enamel. Nude women recline in acid green or cerulean blue fields under open skies; in one portrait, bodies and landscape become indistinguishable, with rings of colors forming the volume of a perm and tufts of grass the pubic hair.
