Pablo PicassoSpanish, 1881–1973Reclining Nude (Fernande)
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About the work
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.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Accession number
- 1954.865
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- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Meanwhile, in the life of Pablo Picasso
The whole life1895–1904 · Workplace
Barcelona
1901–1904
The Blue Period
The Blue Period began — somber paintings in blue-green tones with themes of poverty and sorrow; Picasso divided his time between Barcelona and Paris.
1904
Move to Paris, Beginning of the Rose Period
Picasso settled in the Bateau-Lavoir residence in Montmartre; the sorrow of the Blue Period gave way to images of the theater and the circus — the Rose Period began.
1905
Meeting the Steins and Matisse
Picasso became a favorite of the collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein; at one of Gertrude Stein's gatherings in 1905 he met Henri Matisse — a lifelong friend and rival.
1907
Meeting Georges Braque
Picasso met Georges Braque; together they became the founders of Cubism, a movement that rejected the traditions of naturalism.
May 1907
Visit to the Ethnographic Museum
At the Ethnographic Museum in Paris Picasso was struck by the masks of the peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Polynesia — an experience that influenced the formation of Cubism.
