Lot 65: EUAN UGLOW (1932-2000) Nude on Back with Knees Raised oil on canvas 55.3

EUAN UGLOW (1932-2000) Nude on Back with Knees Raised oil on canvas 55.3 x 66 cm. (21 3/4 x 26 in.) Painted in 1961

Provenance A gift from the artist Private Collection, U.K." Acquired from the above by Yale University Press Literature Catherine Lampert, Euan Uglow, The Complete Paintings, Yale" University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p.47, cat.no.120 (col.ill.)" Please note that there is an upright woodland scene by the same hand verso. Nude on Back with Knees Raised appears to be a development of Uglow’s oil, Nude of an Italian Girl (1959-60). There are slight" differences between the earlier work and the present example; the model’s head is raised, her far hand rests on her stomach not the" mattress, her feet are slightly separated and the overall composition" is mirrored left to right. However, the positioning of the model, her" placement within the pictorial space and the tonal make-up of the work is generally similar. Of Nude of an Italian Girl, and relevant to the" present work, Catherine Lampert comments ‘Both pose and light-filled" setting recall paintings of the legend of Danaë, who was showered with" gold by Zeus and bore his child, as sumptuously imagined by Titian," Rembrandt and many others. It resembles also a charcoal drawing of a reclining nude by Matisse (Uglow kept a photograph of this in the studio).’ (Catherine Lampert, Euan Uglow, The Complete Paintings," Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p.43)." The pyramidal form created by the raised knees in these works is returned to in later pictures, perhaps with the greatest effect in The" Quarry, Pignano (1979-80, Arts Council Collection, London) in which" the figure’s undulations are metaphorically rendered as hills over which to roam. 98 99