Liegender Akt (Reclining Nude), 1911

‘Naked, reclining woman in full figure, the head in the upper right corner of the picture, the feet of the half-drawn and spread legs at the left edge of the picture. She is lying on her back with the r. half of her body slightly upright. He is lying on his back with the r. half of his body slightly raised and holding his r. hand on his l. shoulder, under the figure a blanket with the depiction of grimacing heads at the corners.’

The heads of two wood-carved figures, possibly ‘Crouching, head inclined to the left’, Henze 1910/14, on the left and ‘Standing of high plinth’, Henze 1910/24, in the centre at the top centre and left. The influence of African sculpture is also noticeable here in the forms of the woodcut, creating a wonderfully intense atmosphere.