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Lot Essay
Dieser Akt, eine junge, auf dem Rücken liegende Frau mit nach oben gestreckten Armen ist der Zeitperiode zuzuordnen, in der Amiet an dem bekannten Triptychon Die Wahrheit arbeitete, das zu damaliger Zeit eindrücklich die Verbindung zwischen den Positionen des Jugendstils und der Moderne in Amiets Werk darstellte. So ist auch der Akt in kargem, realistisch anmutendem Interieur, das man der Moderne zuschreiben könnte, verortet und gleichzeitig wirkt das Inkarnat der Frau weich und fast leuchtend, wie dies in Jugendstilmanier in einigen Werken Amiets üblich war.
This painting of a young nude woman reclining with her arms outstretched can be assigned to the period in which Amiet was working on the well-known triptych The Truth, which, at that time, impressively connected Art Nouveau with the modern in Amiet’s work. Here, too, the nude is placed within an austere, realistic, elegant interior, an approach that, with its specific location, one could ascribe to modernism; yet simultaneously, it depicts the incarnation of woman herself – soft and almost glowing, a style he often employed in his Art Nouveau works of art.
This painting of a young nude woman reclining with her arms outstretched can be assigned to the period in which Amiet was working on the well-known triptych The Truth, which, at that time, impressively connected Art Nouveau with the modern in Amiet’s work. Here, too, the nude is placed within an austere, realistic, elegant interior, an approach that, with its specific location, one could ascribe to modernism; yet simultaneously, it depicts the incarnation of woman herself – soft and almost glowing, a style he often employed in his Art Nouveau works of art.