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Description: Painted in 1935. signed Kisling , inscribed Paris and dated 1935 (upper right) oil on canvas

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Dimensions: 69.5 by 100.6cm., 27 3/8 by 39 3/8 in.

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Provenance: Dr Bergeret, Paris
Acquired by the present owner in 1974

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Published: Jean Kisling, Kisling, Turin, 1971, no. 63, illustrated p. 335

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Notes: Kisling's incredibly sensual nudes, such as in the present work, reflect the painter's true love of women and the female form. In 1937, Louis Chéronnet wrote about the artist's exhibition at the Gertrude Stein Gallery: "Kisling is a sensual materialist with a taste for the sumptuous who focuses carefully on technique...what voluptuous lines and colours! All of Kisling's forms are characteristically elongated and graceful as a dancer in an arabesque. And over a seemingly inalterably prepared canvas colours spread, raw, shimmering, and unctuous" (cited in Jean Kisling, Kisling, Turin, 1971, p. 43).