Sylvia Sleigh (8 May 1916 – 24 October 2010) was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter who lived and worked in New York City. She is known for her role in the feminist art motion and especially for reversing acknowledged gender roles in her paintings of nude men, often using normal female poses from historical paintings by male artists like Diego Vélazquez, Titian, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Her most Famous subjects were art critics, feminist artists, and her husband, Lawrence Alloway.
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