This diptych of a standing female nude, from the front and back, presumably the same person, works on the build-up of staccato daubs of paint laid out with the palette knife, forming a textural faience of wavy relief. The accentuations of light trace the body forms and postures, while the luminous yellow is enhanced by the black backdrops. Both images betray a certain awkwardness, as the one glancing at something on her left, seems to be trying to cover her crotch instinctively with her right hand, while the one with the back turned lifts her left leg in akimbo setting the foot against the back of the right knee. Is she an artist’s model and used to dramatize the time a woman is about to have her first sexual encounter, and why and how?