Untitled (Four Figures in the Woods) c. 1928–30

Kathleen Munn, Untitled (Four Figures in the Woods), c. 1928–30

Kathleen Munn, Untitled (Four Figures in the Woods), c. 1928–30

Oil on canvas, 61.1 x 58 cm

Private collection

Untitled (Four Figures in the Woods) is not an entirely successful resolution of figure and landscape. Munn, in effect, painted a single figure from different views in one composition: the four bathers are views of one self-replicating figure seen through a prism and rotated vertically and horizontally, from the front and back. Here Munn paints the conceptualized human body, expressed in its most idealized form.