Standing nude

Standing Nude from 1922 belongs to the middle of Bonnard's productive interwar period, when his mature style was fully established and his domestic subjects had achieved the strange intensity they maintained to the end of his career. The standing pose allows a full-length view of the figure integrated into the domestic interior, the nude treated with the same chromatic attention given to the wallpaper, floor tiles, and furniture around her. Bonnard worked obsessively from memory rather than directly from the model, which freed him from the tyranny of observed color and allowed him to intensify tones beyond any natural model. The current location of this canvas is not publicly documented.

The standing figure is embedded in the surrounding interior rather than isolated against a neutral ground — figure and room share the same chromatic language, built from the same directional strokes. The illusion of three-dimensional space is minimized in favor of surface decoration.