"Recumbent Blonde" is an oil painting on canvas by Stanley William Hayter. It is signed in the lower right "Hayter / 48". It is titled on the verso on the top stretcher bar. The "Recumbent Blonde" was done while Hayter was living in New York and had re-established Atelier 17 there in 1940.

Hayter was one of the Surrealist group in Paris, choosing to quit the group for personal reasons. He carried the gestural Surrealist concept of the "automatic line" to his work in both printmaking and painting, it was a basic concept of the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s in America.

In 1948 Hayter's painting, such as this example, explored the interaction of the solid figure and ambiguous, fluid space, also explored in other paintings, including "Femme au Poisson", "Ceres" and "Antwerp".