The Prints is probably one of the most ambitious paintings Manguin executed in 1905. The composition's complexity is not apparent at first sight. Two women seated on a couch or a narrow bed, one dressed, the other naked, look at a book with colour illustrations in an interior lavishly decorated with hangings . Manguin has composed the scene by sitting them opposite each other. In order for the book to be their common focus of attention, they both have to turn their bodies and heads; the torsion is greater in the naked woman, of whom we see the back and the profile of the face. Both figures represent the same model Jeanne, the artist's wife.
About the Canvas Prints
The Prints, 1905 by Henri Manguin. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto our premium processed canvases and then stretched on a white maple wooden frame (gallery wrap) or framed inside black maple (framed canvas). Your canvas print will be shipped within 4 days in "ready to frame" condition for normal rolled and "ready to hang" condition for frames and wraps with pre-attached hanging wire and/or mounting points.