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| Woman Lying on a Bed, 1899, oil on canvas, 96 x 106 cm, Musée d'Orsay |
The bed - a landscape, tilted toward the viewer, with post-coital sheets bathed in soft late afternoon light.
The woman - Marthe, the artist's bath obsessed, highly-strung muse (and later wife), dozes, tautly, her left leg at a right angle to her right, exposing her sex.
Smoke from a pipe rises before her, evidence of the the artist (and voyeur), Bonnard.
This is the distillation of a moment, filled with intensity in its atmospheric portrayal. A domestic world, layered with private meaning.
Smoke from a pipe rises before her, evidence of the the artist (and voyeur), Bonnard.
This is the distillation of a moment, filled with intensity in its atmospheric portrayal. A domestic world, layered with private meaning.
