Lempicka's reclining muse wrapped in a cascade of pearl-and-champagne satin, a wash of cornflower silk pooling at her shoulders — every fold sculpted in that signature cool, chromium light. The pose is languor itself; the fabric is practically architectural. One of her most sumptuous studies in drapery and repose. Here cloth is given as much soul as flesh: each fold of pearl-and-champagne satin is carved with the gravity of poured metal, draping the figure not in fabric so much as in cool liquid light, until the distinction between the woman and the silk that adores her begins, deliciously, to blur. Her repose is not idleness but a kind of sovereign stillness, the languor of a body so at ease in its own beauty that movement would be an insult to it. Lempicka's chromium palette lends the whole composition the hush of a luxury that knows no doubt, and the pooling cornflower silk falls like a cool note held at the bottom of the eye. At this generous scale the opulence has room to breathe — the fabric still seems to whisper, expensively, of all the comfort the world can sculpt.
- Medium
- Print
- Framing
- Unframed
- Artwork size
- 430 mm × 305 mm
- Collection
- Lempicka
