Seated Nude Facing Front
Artist
John Lyman
Biddeford, Maine, 1886 – Kingsley, Barbados, 1967
Title
Seated Nude Facing Front
Date
About 1935
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
13.2 x 16.2 cm
Credits
Purchase, gift of the Fournelle family, inv. 2012.68
Collection
Quebec and Canadian Art
Lyman liked to use the same subjects repeatedly, so it is not always easy to date his works. His sketches in pencil or oil could precede his definitive paintings by several years. This oil sketch executed about 1935 can be linked to the painting Nude with Crimson Rug from the same time and prefigures Women on the Beach, executed in 1948. Lyman took a particular interest in the theme of bathers in the 1930s and 1940s. Imbued with both reserve and sensuality, Lyman’s drawings demonstrate the hedonism of French painting in the period between the World Wars.
