"Untitled-Erotic Nude" (2008) is an unabashedly sensual portrait of a woman by famed Contemporary artist Pan Deng. Pan seeks to isolate subjects, as seen here, with a lone female figure reclining in bed, her black skirt hoisted to her waist and her white panties pulled down to around her ankles, as she exposes hers full frontal nudity directly and with a facial expression of pure pleasure. This work belongs to Pan's iconic series of female erotic portraits, and he is also famous for his paintings of dogs and of political figures. The power of Pan's his paintings is stunningly illustrated here, they are grounded in simplicity of subject matter balanced by an emotional and visual depth created by his rich, gestural and unabashed manner of painting. This work is a rare polychrome work by Pan Deng, who tends to paint in black and white. This work is unframed and in excellent condition.

Born one of three brothers to a family of police officers in Nanjing, during the start of the Cultural Revolution, a career as an artist was not encouraged. Painting was a path Pan Deng had to pursue on his own. At an early age he found that he possessed a skill for painting that made him stand out among his peers. His work is celebrated in China, and has been the subject of important solo and group exhibitions for over a decade. The artist lives and works in China.