Copy painting on canvas of the artwork
Nude with Cat (Marc)

This square painting is an explosion of Fauvist colors. A nude figure with flamboyant red hair is crouched, offering a saucer to a small yellow cat. The scene is intimate and tender, but rendered with an extremely bold color palette. The woman’s body is modeled with touches of red, green, and yellow, which follow the logic of emotion rather than light and shadow. The floor is a carpet of colored stripes in blue, purple, and yellow, which adds to the dynamism of the composition. It is a work that celebrates color for its own sake, its power to create form, space, and feeling. The connection between the woman and the cat is at the heart of this chromatic symphony, a moment of gentleness captured with remarkable energy and freedom.