Sarah Lucas - 710

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On a round, light blue arm chair with brown wooden legs sits, with arms folded and a bent leg, 

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a slim, headless figure 

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dressed just in court shoes. 

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The torso of this soft-looking, puppet-like figure begins with the upper arms 

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and proportionately large breasts which stand out with their prominent, knobbly nipples. 

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The folded arms are resting on the thighs, but do not obscure the view of the crotch clothed in tights. 

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The legs are spread slightly as the left leg is resting casually on the seat while the right shoe is touching the floor. 

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This anonymous figure is sitting causally, somewhat coolly, and in a self-confident pose on the armchair. 

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This pose could perhaps be described as masculine, 

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if it wasn’t for the striking feminine breasts and the high-heeled shoes. 

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At the same time the figure’s nudity 

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and the pose on the chair 

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are suggestive of a nude model.

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Since the 1990s Sarah Lucas has worked with everyday, and in some cases, found materials.

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She initially filled tights with newspaper, later with wool, in order to form the soft body parts of her so-called Bunnies. 

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For CROSS DORIS she selected light, skin-coloured tights, which she filled with wool as well as pulling a number of tights over each other in multiple layers, for example on the legs. With the Bunnies the artist has created so-called soft sculptures—figures which she places, sometimes in impossible poses, on stools, the two merging together. Thus she exposes social ideals of the female body in their nakedness, as depicted, for example, in newspapers, magazines, and adverts.