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For example, the demand for frontal nudes is generally much stronger than back views - in other words, breasts are favoured over bottoms! This got me pondering about the oil, right, by Harry Holland (b. 1941). Entitled Six, the 5ft 6in x 3ft 11in (1.68 x 1.20m) work is featured in the Summer Show at the Albemarle Gallery in London's Albemarle Street, until September 11.

Priced £18,750, it combines both front and back female forms and with its obvious eroticism is surely a highly commercial image.