id: 138762
accession number: 1963.151
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.151
updated: 2025-02-09 02:46:12.603000
Reclining Nude, 1938. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Pen and ink; sheet: 27.1 x 35.2 cm (10 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1963.151 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Reclining Nude
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creation date: 1938
creation date earliest: 1938
creation date latest: 1938
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creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: pen and ink
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Spanish
type: Drawing
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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: Sheet: 27.1 x 35.2 cm (10 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
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inscription: Signed and dated, in ink, at upper right: 27.12.38 / Picasso
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1963)
opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
title: Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965
opening date: 1966-05-20T04:00:00
Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20-July 24, 1966).
title: The Thirties Decade: American Artists and Their European Counterparts
opening date: 1971-10-10T04:00:00
The Thirties Decade: American Artists and Their European Counterparts. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (organizer) (October 10-November 28, 1971).
title: The Lessons of the Academy
opening date: 1983-02-08T05:00:00
The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983).
title: French Drawings from the Collection
opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00
French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).
title: Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawings
opening date: 2021-10-07T04:00:00
Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawings. Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (organizer) (October 7-December 3, 2021) https://www.acquavellagalleries.com/exhibitions/picasso.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Richard H. Zinser, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1963
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1963-
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 198
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n222
Picasso, Pablo, Olivier Berggruen, and Christine Poggi. Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing. New York, NY : Acquavella Galleries, 2021.
page number: Reproduced: p. 176, plate 61 and endsheet back
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