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...Drawings and lithographs here range from an early (1933) “Le Voyeur” and two highly sexed, unsettlingly rape-like images of a young woman with a lowering minotaur (Picasso’s emblem for his raunchy self)...
...McKillen senior now lives in a wing of the original villa. On his first visit he liked the place so much that he declared he was never going home....
...Of course, the film has to approve of the voyeur, because that voyeur is not only Hitchcock (who is seen at one point through one of the windows in one of his trademark appearances) – but us....
...At a fraction over £10m, it represents good value and my client wants it sold discreetly with no fuss, brochure or voyeurs. I have been entrusted to find serious buyers who will “get” the flat....
...The window as the frame for the voyeur is also one of the most consistent motifs in art....
...The Georgians had their houses, country and terrace, the Victorians had their town halls and stations, the modernists their villas and housing projects. We have museums of art....
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