Woodblock Print by Kiyoharu Sone: Nude #3, Framed

Stretched across the sheet with arms behind her head, she has clearly nowhere to be.

Nude #3 is a framed woodblock print by Kiyoharu Sone, from Japan, dated 1980. It is ink on paper. Japanese print artists of the later 20th century often returned to the reclining nude, giving an old subject a clean, modern line. A full-figured woman lies across a pale sheet, drawn in fine black outline with pink skin tones and dark hair. Below her, the edge of an orange-brown bed frame crosses the image above gray and black patterned areas. Pencil notations sit beneath, inside a cream mat and ribbed black frame. It is 22.3 inches wide and 27.7 high.

Leisure, rendered with perfect confidence.