{"product_id":"nude-004","title":"Nude 004 | Signed, Edition of 25","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"fpa-product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003ch1\u003eNude 004\u003c\/h1\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003eMario Kroes · 2018 · Archival pigment print, edition of 25, signed and numbered\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eIn Nude 004, Mario Kroes turns a fragment of the body into a study of line, texture, and negative space. White fishnet stockings catch the light against a black field, while the cropped figure becomes less portrait than sculptural form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eKroes is a self-taught photographer from Germany working between fashion and fine art. His stated inspirations include Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon, but this image succeeds by reduction: a black ground, exact cropping, and the body held in a precise graphic rhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cblockquote class=\"pullquote\"\u003eA body reduced to rhythm, shadow, and the bright geometry of mesh.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe composition stretches the figure across the frame in a long diagonal. The legs appear almost suspended, modeled by the dense white grid of the stockings before the surrounding black space swallows every incidental detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIt is an intimate image with a controlled surface. The erotic charge is present, but held inside discipline: curve, contrast, texture, and the tension between flesh and abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eCollection Note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis archival pigment print is produced on museum-grade paper, signed, thumbprinted, and numbered on the verso. It is issued in a limited edition of twenty-five and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"meta\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/provenance-authentication\"\u003eFull Provenance \u0026amp; Authentication\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mario Kroes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48430746271969,"sku":"MK-2024-NUDE004","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2765\/9233\/files\/MK-2024-NUDE004.png?v=1780319444","url":"https:\/\/www.finephoto.art\/products\/nude-004","provider":"FinePhoto.Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}