Bellotti, Dina

(1912 Alexandria, Egypt-2003 Rome) (Italy / France); Verges, Paulette

   Painter and book illustrator. May be actually a male artist working under a woman's name. Studied at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts. Active in the 1920s and 1930s, specialized in illustrations focusing on female buttocks being fondled, spanked, caned, and receiving enemas.

   Reproductions: [Man fondling buttocks of ballet dancer]; c1920; etching; Klinger, 1984d: fig. 2184 [B]. [Nude female]; c1920; etching; Klinger, 1984d: figs. 2182, 2183 [B]. [School girls exposing their butts]; c1920; etching; Klinger, 1984d: fig. 2181 [B]. [Two women fondling]; c1920; etching; Klinger, 1984d: fig. 2178 [B]. [Woman about to get an enema]; c1920; etching; Klinger, 1984d: fig. 2179 [B]. [Woman spanking another woman]; c1920; etching; Klinger, 1984d: fig. 2180 [B].