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Reclining Nude (Fernande)
1906
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
Drawings
Reclining Nude (Fernande), 1906. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Watercolor and gouache with pencil and possibly charcoal on paper; sheet: 47.3 x 61.3 cm (18 5/8 x 24 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Straight 1954.865 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This drawing depicts Picasso's lover Fernande Olivier, with whom he spent the summer of 1906 in the remote Spanish village of Gósol, where he made this sheet. Picasso was engaged in radical experimentation with technique and simplified formal distortions at this time, and this shift in his work can be seen in Fernande's stylized face and somewhat disjointed gesture, and in the expressive strokes and spotted effects of the gouache. Picasso mixed his paints with an unidentified material to produce the spotted effect most noticeable on Fernande's lower torso and the blue blanket below her.
- Maker/Artist
- Picasso, Pablo
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Watercolor and gouache with pencil and possibly charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.3 x 61.3 cm (18 5/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower right, in pink crayon: Picasso [underlined]; verso, upper left, in black crayon: 2548 [in a box; upside down]; upper right, in black crayon: 2548 [in a box; sideways]; lower left, in blue crayon: ph / 94 [sideways]; lower right, in black crayon: 2548 [in a box; sideways]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1954.865
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Straight
- Exhibitions
- An Inaugural Exhibition: El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Picasso and Man, In Memoriam - Pablo Picasso, 1881 - 1973, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Masterpieces from Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in U.S.A. and U.S.S.R., Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle (Picasso: Pastels, Paintings, Watercolors), Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle (Picasso: Pastels, Paintings, Watercolors), Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Picasso, 1905-1906, Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition , <em>Pablo Picasso</em>. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (February 6 - March 1, 1934).
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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