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Reclining Nude (Fernande)

1906
(Spanish, 1881–1973)
Spain, 20th century
Watercolor and gouache with pencil and possibly charcoal on paper
Support: Beige modern laid 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: Zervos I.317; Sutton/Lecaldano 295; Daix, Boudaille, Rosselet XV.47; Palau i Fabre 1308; PP 1906-046
Location: not on view
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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.

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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.
Horizontally oriented watercolor drawing of Fernande Olivier, a woman with a light skin tone reclining on a blotchy strip of blue extending horizontally across a blotchy brown background. She bends her knees up and folds her arms behind her head, which is wrapped in a blue cloth as she looks down and to our right. Her slightly distorted face has a long nose that merges with the arch of her eyebrows as she smiles faintly.

Reclining Nude (Fernande)

1906

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
Spain, 20th century

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