Seated Female Nude, Pablo Picasso, summer 1909
Pablo Picasso, portraitPablo PicassoSpanish, 1881–1973

Seated Female Nude

summer 1909 · Drawing and Watercolor

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Where is “Seated Female Nude” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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1953.192

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In the life of Pablo Picasso

The whole life
  1. 1907

    Meeting Georges Braque

    Picasso met Georges Braque; together they became the founders of Cubism, a movement that rejected the traditions of naturalism.

  2. 1907

    Beginning of Work with the Kahnweiler Gallery

    Picasso joined the recently opened Paris gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who became one of the first champions of his work and of Cubism.

  3. 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.

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