Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)

“Indolence, a small oil sketch painted with a vital directness, brushed with the artist’s finger, seems a spontaneous record of that small moment of epiphany Bonnard sought to remember and document.” (Sasha M. Newman in exh. cat., 1989-1990, op. cit., pp. 170).

L'indolent is one of the first nudes depicted by Bonnard. It was after seeing the work that Abroise Vollard asked Bonnard to illustrate Parallèlement. The final version of the present work hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.