Offered by Tobogan Antiques
Dimensions without frame : Height : 114 cm (44,8 in.) ; Width : 146 cm (57,5 in.)
Important painting representing a group of three women, one of whom is nude, having lunch near a river.
In the foreground, near a basket of fruit, a naked woman, seated on a white towel, holding a bunch of cherries and with her face turned towards the viewer, has a black ribbon tied in her blond hair by a woman. This one, elegantly dressed in a pink dress, performs her gesture in a concentrated attitude. In the third plan, a woman, dressed in a blue dress, sits in an internalized attitude.
The artist evokes here Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe, dated 1863 and kept at the Musée d'Orsay, with this naked woman, seated near a basket of fruit, with legs slightly bent and looking at the viewer in a will to create a strong visual dialogue.