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ArtistPen and ink and watercolor. Bright afternoon light streams through tall studio windows, flooding the space with vibrant, varied colors in a Matisse-inspired palette. In the foreground, a life model, beautiful woman in early 20th-century stockings, bloomers, is undressing and taking off her corset just behind an ornate painted accordion screen. Her hair is loosely pinned. She is fully visible to the viewer, but the screen blocks her from the painter’s direct view. She peeks through a narrow gap between the painted panels — cranes and peonies in rich detail — toward a nervous looking artist preparing his easel and wearing a smock. The studio is alive with creativity: easels with half-finished paintings, jars of brushes, trailing ivy plants, a kimono draped over the screen, and art supplies scattered across a worn Persian rug. The mood is playful yet charged with intimacy, the daylight illuminating every texture and color.
An ink and watercolor painting shows a nude woman from the back, looking out over a European city, as she removes her underwear and garter stockings by hand. The woman from mid-calf up stands on a wooden floor. The back of her left leg is visible from mid-calf while the back of her right leg is mostly covered by her underwear. She wears light, almost transparent, white garter stockings, and has a ring on her right middle finger. Her hands are pulling lace-bordered underwear down from her buttocks. She wears a small necklace with a few small white pearls around the back of her neck and a light flower in her dark hair bun. The woman’s body is a warm orange, while her shadow, cast onto the wooden floor, is dark and long. The room is surrounded by a medium teal-green balustrade, with a few square panels, above which is a body of water the color of deep blue. The water extends from one end of the painting to the other, creating a body of water in front of a city of houses with terracotta-orange roofs and white and yellow walls. A dark blue sky with light blue clouds covers the city, where a round, yellow sun also shines.