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Reclining Nude (Fernande)

Reclining Nude (Fernande)

1906
(Spanish, 1881–1973)
Spain, 20th century
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.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Straight 1954.865
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Daix, Boudaille, and Rosselet XV.47
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.

Description

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.
  • by 1934-by 1954
    Paul Guillaume, Paris
    ?-1954
    Mr. and Mrs. Michael Straight, Washington, D.C., given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    1954-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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