Spanish magazine depicts Michelle Obama as negress-slave. (39968)

Magazine de Fuera de Serie, a Spanish periodical, has caused quite a stir with its decision to feature artwork depicting Michelle Obama as semi-nude African slave on the cover of its latest issue.

Accompanying an article entitled “Michelle Granddaughter of a Slave, Lady of America,” the piece by Karine Percheron-Daniels superimposes the First Lady’s face onto the iconic Portrait d’une negresse by French neoclassical painter Marie-Guillemine Benoist.

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