Monique au fond rouge
1951
Oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
Signed lower left: M. VERDIER
Paint loss in the area of the signature ; left vertical bar of the frame broken
Important example of 1950s painting and of the Jeune Peinture movement. A nude version of Monique is illustrated in Sarah Wilson, Pierre Basset and Florence Condamine, Les insoumis de l'art modern - Paris, les années 50s (Éditions Mendjisky Écoles de Paris, 2016), p. 99