Seated nude

The creation of the work entitled "Seated Nude" takes place between 1946 and 1948, years strongly characterized by the reworking, with oil colors, of a theme dear to the painter Bruno Zoni: the female body. For some time this subject has been at the center of the artist's research and style tests, who carried out a series of poses and sketches studies with pencils, ink, watercolors and pastels, and will remain a field of experimentation for years to come. In the table in question, of great quality, a naked woman, at the center of the scene, is sitting on a chair while reminiscing about thoughts, or rather disturbances judging by the expression on her face. The woman is alone, behind her can be glimpsed elements of the furniture on the left, and on the right a window, which seems partially open and from which a light enters. The heavy head rests on the arm, the closed eyes and the half-open mouth generate an expression of discomfort on the woman's face. The left hand rests between the clenched thighs; the lower edge of the painting cuts the chair and the body at the ankles. The female figure gains the foreground and becomes the protagonist of a portrait that does not aim at realistic rendering but at a restitution of the most intimate and profound dimension of the character.