Saturday, April 26, 2008

Addendum VI


Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): A Somnolent Sisterhood




Reclining Nude, c.1840–41




The Hammock, 1844




The Young Ladies of the Banks of the Seine, 1857




Reclining Nude, 1862




Reclining Woman, c. 1865-66




Woman with a Parrot, 1866


'The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.'

Kenneth Clark