Hopper made three trips to Paris from 1906 to 1910. Summer Interior gives an idea of what he was capable of in those early years. Trying to guess the artist, you might think the painting was by Pierre Bonnard or Édouard Vuillard. There's a tactile quality missing from a lot of Hopper's later works, in the sheet pulled down from the bed and the woman's toes just touching the thickly painted shaft of light, like another sheet, on the green floor. The abstract yellow and reddish-brown stripes to the right are presumably a Venetian blind, called a jalousie in French. Some theme of sexual jealousy may be at work in this freeze frame from an unknown narrative.
[Oil on canvas, 61 x 73.7 cm]
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