![Paul Cadmus - Sleeping Nude [1967]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49053500567_9b7ba9d6b9_b.jpg)
"My personal sentimental favourite is my small Sleeping Nude. This tiny picture was begun, from one of my drawings, as a demonstration, to a young hopeful, of the technique of egg tempera painting...I found that I liked the commencement and stimulated, and perhaps fertilised, by bedtime book-looking, in particular Ingres and his Odalisques, I decided to continue and finish it. Unlike most of my paintings, this one is mostly painted directly from life, the model as used in the drawing being available at the time, as well as my furniture."
[Christie’s, New York - Tempera on paperboard, 15.2 x 30.5 cm]