Word: turce
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...Picasso, then 50, found a pitch of sexual happiness, which, if he had enjoyed it before, had not shown so 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...
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