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“Mice” and one Man

The quantity of conquests would supplant the quality of a single relationship. Christian soon

became the lady-killer, a kind of modern times Bel-ami. They were beautiful, he behaved with them

as he would with the latest model. Wealthy or famous they brought their contribution to his notoriety.
He remains loyal however. He would marry none of them. Besides his many relationships, he would tie
more stable bonds. However, eternal unsatisfied, he could only remain faithful to himself. Some of them

would achieve immortality, since he would set their forms in bronze. He would track down beauty in

each one of them, for his sense of aesthetics is always alert. Fascinated by the Woman, he has discovered
very early the power he exerts on them, and this constitutes his main source of inspiration.

When they fit the criteria of this refined aesthete, they become potential conquests: baby-dolls,

femmes fatales, well rounded or androgynous, but also beautiful, very feminine transvestites. Every new
experience, strange or surrealistic, attracts him.

In fact, this imaginative aesthete instinctively understands that each woman has her own way to

attain the apogee of her sexuality. Just like, as a kid, he seeped into nature to make a better restitution of
it, adult he would satisfy each one of them by taking the most appropriate paths. He has so much respect
for women that he submits to their hidden desires and so unveils their each personal methodology of

pleasure.

However, it is out of the question to see in this Christian’s only search. He savours life and its fur-
tive pleasures, but also knows how to express lasting feelings.

Christian Maas enjoys saying that he is permanently studying, and that his conquests are another
form of anti-fate necessary to his works. He achieves a creative balance by being freed of all sexual urges.
Besides, woman’s body holds an important place in Christian Maas’s works. Subdued by the

beauty of the forms, he distils its essential nature with a tremendous suggestive emotional force in at-

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