id: 173643
accession number: 1932.719
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.719
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Nude (Study for The Harem), spring-summer 1906. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Water-based paint on laid paper; unframed: 63.6 x 48.3 cm (25 1/16 x 19 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1932.719 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Nude (Study for The Harem)
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creation date: spring-summer 1906
creation date earliest: 1905
creation date latest: 1905
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creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: Water-based paint on laid paper
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Spanish
type: Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Daix and Boudaille XV.38
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CREATORS
* Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) - artist
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world.
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measurements: Unframed: 63.6 x 48.3 cm (25 1/16 x 19 in.)
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inscription: signed, in pink pastel, lower right: Picasso; watermark, along left margin: INGRES
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections
opening date: 1942-01-06T05:00:00
French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).
title: 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans
opening date: 1943-06-22T04:00:00
19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).
title: Exhibition of French Painting
opening date: 1946-10-01T05:00:00
Exhibition of French Painting. Parkersburg Art Center (organizer) (October 1-30, 1946).
title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure
opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00
Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Ninth Annual Exhibition of Water Colors and Pastels. Cleveland Museum of Art (January 13 - February 14, 1932).', 'opening_date': '1932-01-13T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Pablo Picasso. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (February 6 - March 1, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1934-02-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Picasso: "Blue" and "Rose" Peroids, 1901-1906. Jacques Seligmann, New York (November 2 - November 26, 1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-11-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Sixteenth International Exhibition: Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes. Art Institute of Chicago (March 18 - May 16, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-03-18T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Contemporary Movements in European Painting. Toledo Museum of Art (November 6 - December 11, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-11-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Picasso: Forty Years of His Art. Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 15, 1939 - January 7, 1940).', 'opening_date': '1939-11-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Picasso before 1907. Knoedler Galleries, New York (October 15 - November 8, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-10-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Five Hundred Years of Watercolor. Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach (February 6 - February 29, 1948).', 'opening_date': '1948-02-06T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Marie Harriman Gallery, Inc., NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1932
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1932-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"Cleveland and Detroit Acquire Picassos." The Art Digest (March 15, 1932): 6.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 6
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Pablo Picasso. Exh. Cat. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1934.
page number: Mentioned: no. 91
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Francis, Henry S. "A Picasso Water Color." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 22, no. 7 (July 1935): 117-119.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 117-119; Reproduced: p. 114
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Bulliet, C.J. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici Friede, 1936.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 106
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Picasso: "Blue" and "Rose" Periods, 1901-1906. Exh. Cat. New York: Jacques Seligmann, 1936.
page number: Mentioned: p. 22, no. 27; Reproduced: pl. 27
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The Sixth International Exhibition: Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes. Exh. Cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 118
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Contemporary Movements in European Painting. Exh. Cat. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1938.
page number: Mentioned: no. 86
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Barr, Jr. Alfred H. Picasso: Forty Years of His Art. Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1939.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 54, no. 61
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Barr, Jr. Alfred H. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946.
page number: Mentioned: p. 281
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Picasso before 1907: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association. Exh. Cat. New York: Knoedler Galleries, 1947.
page number: Mentioned: no. 25
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Five Hundred Years of Watercolor. Exh. Cat. Palm Beach: Society of the Four Arts, 1948.
page number: Mentioned: no. 55
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Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 1962.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 320
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Daix, Pierre and Georges Boudaille. Picasso, 1900-1906: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Neuchatel: Ides et Calends, 1966-88.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 302, no. XV.38
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Sutton, Denys and Paolo Lecaldano. The Complete Paintings of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 110, no. 273
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Palau i Fabre, Josep. Picasso: The Early Years, 1881-1907. Translated by Kenneth Lyons. New York: Rizzoli, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: p. 550-51; Reproduced: p. 453, no. 1265
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Picasso, 1905-1906: From the Rose Period to the Ochres of Gósol. Exh. Cat. Barcelona: Museu Picasso, 1992.
page number: Mentioned: p. 322
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Léal, Brigitte, Christine Piot, Marie-Laure Bernadac. Picasso: The Monograph, 1881-1973. Barcelona: Poligrafa, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 100, no. 203
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Robinson, William H., Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 245, fig. 9, no. 6:7
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Dumas, Ann. "The Rose Period." In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 80-101. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020.
page number: Reproduced: p. 99, no. 72
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