Round 11: Tossup 16

The Getty paid over three million dollars to acquire this artist’s wooden Head with Horns, though they later reattributed it to an anonymous sculptor. A fox symbolizes perversity in a relief by this artist that depicts him sucking his thumb while holding the hand of a nude woman. In another sculpture by this artist, a nude woman stands on top of a she-wolf while smothering her cub. This artist of Be in Love, You Will Be Happy and the ceramic goddess (*) Oviri was (10[1])inspired by a friend’s injury to sculpt a “self-portrait” head in the form of a jug. Edouard Manet’s Olympia inspired this artist’s painting of his 14-year-old “vahine” lying nude on her stomach while a black-clad ghost looks on behind her bed. For 10 points, Spirit of the Dead Watching depicts Teha’amana, the child “wife” of what resident of Tahiti? ■END■

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