Word: couching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living in the Bateau Lavoir, a studio building in Rue Ravignan. "No one," Kahnweiler recalls, "could ever imagine the poverty, the deplorable misery of those studios. The wallpaper hung in tatters from the unplastered walls. There was dust on the drawings and rolled-up canvases on the caved-in couch. Beside the stove was a kind of mountain of piled-up lava, which was ashes. It was unspeakable...
...conspicuously in his work. Marie-Thérèse inspired a sequence of erotic images which are unique in modern art. Not since Ingres's Bain Turc had sexual feeling been made so concrete in painting. The slow, swelling, profoundly organic rhythms of Nude on a Black Couch, 1932 (41) are a visual equivalent to Blake's praise of "the lineaments of satisfied desire"; even the philodendron, which rises behind Marie-Thérèse's sleeping body, seems to have just had an orgasm...
...Three Women at the Spring-1921; 35. Sleeping Peasants-1919; 36. Three Dancers-1925; 37. Plaster Head and Limbs-1925; 38. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait-1929; 39. Bather Playing with a Ball-1932; 40. Girl Before a Mirror-1932; 41. Nude on a Black Couch-1932; 42. Weeping Woman-1937; 43. Still Life with Red Bull's Head-1938; 44. Woman with Green Hat-1939; 45. Night Fishing at Antibes-1939; 46. Cat Eating a Bird...
...with Roses-1954; 53. Woman by a Window-1956; 54. Aries: The Arena in Front of the Rhone-1960; 55. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-1961; 56. The Artist and His Model-1963; 57. Rembrandt and Saskia-1963; 58. The Sabines-1963; 59. Femme Couchée-1964; 60. Tête d'Homme-1969; 61. Pierrot and Harlequin...
Which isn't far from the truth. For among the future projects Liz begins to describe once she's again ensconced on the couch are a handful of possible movies, two new books, a record...