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1.28.2012

The Dressing Room with Pink Sofa (Female Nude in Backlight)



Pierre Bonnard, Le Cabinet de toilette au canapé rose (Nu à contre-jour), 1908
"Bright sunlight filtering through translucent curtains illuminates this interior, shines on the pink sofa in the background and shimmers on the body of the nude young woman—Marthe."
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3 comments:

  1. one of the finest painted depictions of curtains

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  2. this is simply gorgeous. somehow every object here (and it is a perfectly close space) seems liquid and made out of both waves and particles of light. and her body becomes a part of this golden flow.

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