A large-format watercolor nude in vivid green ink contour on a yellow-and-white ground — the most graphic and poster-like of the large watercolor figures. The reclining figure is drawn with a single sustained green ink contour line, the body's outline as one continuous mark from the raised foot at the left to the face and hair at the upper right. The yellow watercolor below suggests a ground or surface; a loose green wash at the left creates an atmospheric zone. The face is described briefly in the same green ink: the eye, the nose, the mouth in a few strokes.
The single-color ink contour — vivid green against the warm ground — is the most graphic approach in the large-format series. Where other works combine pencil with watercolor or ink with grey wash, here the entire figure is a green line: the body reduced to its outer edge in a single assertive color. The large format (25 by 24.25) gives the green contour figure the scale of a poster or print, the graphic simplicity becoming monumental.
The green color has connections to the green chalk figure series in the new portfolio — the botanical, living quality that the green chalk gave to the narrow-format standing figures applies here too, though at much larger scale and in a freer, more gestural medium. The figure seems to grow as much as it lies, the green contour connecting body to growth in the same way the green chalk figures suggested living form.