Reclining Nude is made around the same time as ‘Nude Studies’. 

The subject of Nude Studies: the painter’s model. It refers to the for centuries depicted (white) nude model in the history of painting. Looking and being looked at, the relationship between the model and the artist, the ideal form of the body, the colour of skin, come together in a balancing pink shelf. The object, the sculpture, the ‘model’, or the monochrome painting on the photograph, play both the role of the nude model itself as its depiction. 

In this work emphasis lays even more on the relationship between the depicted object and the photograph itself which almost completely coincide. Turning the photograph into a sculpture. And on the ideal form of a body, needless to say.