Sentence examples for lying figure from inspiring English sources

Picasso's swirling and circular "Femme Couchée à la Mèche Blonde" (1932) hangs next to Bacon's similarly shaped "Lying Figure in a Mirror" (1971).

As a counterpoint to the miniatures found in "Lilliput," the curator Cecilia Alemani's first big High Line installation, the Los Angeles-based, British-born sculptor Thomas Houseago has installed his "Lying Figure" at Little West 12th Street.

"Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe," estimated to bring in $9 million to $12 million, is one of the 26 lots from the Belgian collectors Roger and Josette Vanthournout that will kick off the Nov. 14 sale.

She, too, lies with eyes closed, a lay figure in a long dress awaiting the life-giving kiss of her prince.

Walter Sickert's wooden lay figure George continues to do sterling work at Bath Spa University, where he struts its stuff for each new generation of art students.

One of her starriest finds is the mannequin belonging to Alan Beeton, who, in the late 1920s, produced a celebrated series of paintings that explored the sheer weirdness of the lay figure.

Mutely unresponsive to Kokoschka's attentions, she was soon demoted from sex toy to studio lay figure before being escorted into the garden where she had her head snapped off.

In his 1922 Self-Portrait at the Easel Oskar Kokoschka paints a pert, almost pornographic, lay figure into the picture and shows himself apparently in the act of fingering her.

As an example of the classical renaissance at the Carolingian court and as the first medieval biography of a lay figure, the work was highly admired and copied in its own time.

While most people would likely consider such a mannequin to be a simple lay figure or tailor's dummy, the video in this case tells a different story.

Animated lay figures, as if out of a "how to draw" book, skip and jump and ingeniously draw themselves.