Albertine Simonet and her two friends on the beach in the fictional town of Balbec. Three of Proust’s characters from In Search of Lost Time, 1913. [https://vindevie.me/2017/08/29/honore-sharrer/] One prevalent theme is Sharrer’s use of the female nude.... Her take on the female body is at once Classical and provocatively realistic. She paints pale and curvaceous female figures, reminiscent of Rubens, with the type of sturdy thighs that would send R. Crumb into a panic. Yet, her use of dimpled skin, provocative and awkward poses, and contrast with the other imagery in the scenes rips the figures away from a mythic or sexual context, shining a light instead on the way women are seen in society. [http://www.artandantiquesmag.com/2017/05/honore-sharrer/] She referred to her naked, satisfyingly-sized women as ‘liberated’. It tends to be the clothed women, no matter how skimpy their clothing, who are not free, autonomous human beings. [https://vindevie.me/2017/08/29/honore-sharrer/]