Figure in Front of a Mantel

Figure in Front of a Mantel

Is it the long hair?
It can’t be much else!

For surely no man has
ever looked upon such a naked woman –
formless, faceless, facing a mirror
in such an unarresting pose –
and had the thoughts I’m having now.
 
 
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Source:

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/the_robert_lehman_collection/nude_before_a_mirror_balthus_balthazar_klossowski//objectview.aspx?OID=150000233&collID=15&dd1=15