Study of a Standing Nude
Artist
Pablo Picasso
(Spanish, 1881-1973)
CultureSpanish
Date1906-07
MediumBrush | Ink | Paper
DimensionsOverall: 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (29.8 x 20 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2150
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a brush and ink drawing, on thin paper mounted on another sheet. It is a study of a standing female nude with her arms raised.Label TextPablo Picasso Spanish, 1881–1973 Study of Standing Nude, 1906–07 Ink on paper This is one of several preliminary studies that Pablo Picasso made for his revolutionary 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (below). By radically synthesizing a variety of formal influences—from African masks to the paintings of Paul Cézanne—in a single work, the painting brought Picasso to the threshold of Cubism. Here, the artist depicts a figure with its hands posed behind its head. The blunt, mask-like face and bold, thick contours anticipate the raw power of a finished female form. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2150 Provenanceunknown; Weyhe Gallery, New York City; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr; The Chrysler Museum, 1971Exhibition History"Choate Exhibition," Wallingford, CT., January 17 - February 13, 1936. "Exhibition of the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Collection," Arts Club of Chicago, January 8-31, 1937, No. 21. "Selected Exhibition of the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Collection," Detroit Institue of Arts, October 4-31, 1937, No. 107. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art." Museum of Modern Art, New York City, November 15, 1939 - January 7, 1940, No. 74; Art Institute of Chicago, February 1 - March 3, 1940; St. Louis Museum, March 16 - April 14, 1940; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, April 26 - May 25, 1940. "Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January 16 - March 4, 1941, cat no. 214, p. 119; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, March 29 - May 11, 1941. "Pablo Picasso Retrospective," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, June 17 - July 21, 1973. "Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture," Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, November 7, 1981 - January 3, 1982. "Inside 291," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, April 12 - June 17, 1984. "The Touch of Genius: Master Drawings from Norfolk Collections," The Chrysler Museum at Seaboard Center Gallery, Norfolk, VA, August 25 - October 10, 1986. "Master Drawings from the Chrysler Museum," Small Changing Gallery, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, February 26 - April 23, 1989. "Grand Designs: Preliminary Drawings and Oil Sketches from The Chrysler Museum", Prints and Drawings Gallery, The Chrysler Museum, April 2 - June 22, 1994. "Matisse-Picasso," Tate Modern, May - Aug. 2002; Grand Palais, Sept. 2002 - Jan. 2003; Museum of Modern Art, Feb. - May, 2003. "Behind the Seen: The Chrysler's Hidden Museum," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., October 21, 2005 - February 19, 2006. "Collection Conversations: Fractured Lens: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism’s Influence," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 14, 2014 - February 22, 2015. Published ReferencesMaurice Raynal, _Picasso_ (Delphin-Verlag Munich, 1921) No 15. Art Adventure League, Lesson No. 2. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., _Picasso: Forty Years of His Art_, (NYC & Chicago: The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with The Art Insitute of Chicago, 1939), No. 74. C. Zervos, _Picasso_, Vol 2. (Paris: 1940), p. 8, no. 14. _Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr._ (Richmond: VA Museum of FIne Arts, 1941), p. 119, no. 214. Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Picasso Cubista_ (Milan: Rizzoli, 1972), no. 20 "Picasso Retrospective," Chrysler Museum_Bulletin_, Vol. 2, No. 5 (July 1973), ill. p. 1. Alan G. Wilkinson, Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture_ (Art Gallery of Ontario: 1981), ill. no. 48. _The Chrysler Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection_ (Norfolk, VA: 1982), ill. p. 122. Pepe Karmel, _Picasso and the Invention of Cubism_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 58-60. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 95, fig. 114. ISBN: 978-0-940744-72-1
