Description
Nude IV – a close crop in gold
Wall art shears the figure at the shoulders and again lower down, leaving a square crop that holds only the middle of the body in a red garment — modern painting that withholds more than it shows and gets its tension from exactly that.
Technique and texture
The gold ground went on in several thin coats and was then rubbed back, so a warmer brown surfaces through it in places like beaten metal. The red garment is painted smooth, with a darker shadow along its edges to give it body. The black contour runs thinner here than on its neighbours in the series and breaks off altogether in places.
The motif
Because the crop is tight the eye never receives the whole and completes it unasked. The cream and ochre planes of the body are modelled with soft transitions while the garment stays perfectly flat, so they read as different substances. Nothing is given that would identify the figure.
Setting and placement
Gold answers a directed light rather than a general one, and under a spot or a track the ground gains a depth it does not have in flat daylight. The square format wants a square-ish place: above a low chest, or in a narrow passage where you pass close to it.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, thin gold coats rubbed back, smoothly painted garment, thinned and broken contour
- Palette: gold, red, cream, ochre, black
- Ideal for: hallways, dressing rooms, entrance halls
- Character: tight, metallic, withholding
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Nude IV on gold: sizes, stretcher and frame
Nude IV is painted in 11 sizes, from 40 x 40 to 180 x 180 cm, most of them square, with 50 x 60, 70 x 80 and 100 x 120 cm as slightly upright options. Over a 200 cm sofa, choose 130 x 130 cm, which spans about two thirds of its width. For a double bed 160–180 cm wide pick 110 x 110 cm, and for a low chest of drawers about 150 cm long choose 90 x 90 or 100 x 120 cm. In a dressing room or a narrow passage, where the red garment is seen up close, choose 50 x 60 or 70 x 80 cm.
Choose YES under Stretcher and the canvas with its gold ground arrives on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. A frame is optional: for Nude IV the Frame menu starts at “Without frame”. Delivery of Nude IV takes 15–45 days. Nude IV is hand-painted, its gold ground laid in thin coats and rubbed back, so this painting is not a print.
Buyer questions about Nude IV
Which size of Nude IV fits above a double bed?
For a bed 160–180 cm wide choose 110 x 110 cm, which spans about two thirds of the bed width and leaves 25–35 cm of wall on each side of the gold ground.
Does Nude IV arrive ready to hang?
Yes, with YES under Stretcher the canvas with the red garment and gold ground comes stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Can I order Nude IV in a size that is not among the 11?
Yes, we paint the gold ground and red garment as a painting made to order to your measurements.
Is Nude IV a print?
No, the gold ground of Nude IV is laid in several thin coats and rubbed back by hand, so a warmer brown shows through in places.
