When You Close Your Eyes

This is an intimate cabinet picture in the tradition of the French tableau de cabinet. It presents a closely cropped reclining nude, evoking an intensely private encounter. The painting distills the figure into a fragment, blurring the boundaries between observed reality and personal memory. Its compressed composition invites quiet contemplation, while the warm, golden flesh tones heighten the sense of proximity and vulnerability. It is an oil on canvas, finished with white edges and a gloss varnish, signed and ready to hang.