Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973
Half-Length Female Nude
INV-1129
Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973autumn 1906
Half-Length Female Nude
Pablo Picasso Spanish, active France, 1881–1973 →Rose Periodpaintingmodern and contemporary art
Date
autumn 1906
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 80.3 × 64.1 cm (31 5/8 × 25 1/4 in.); Panel: 81.6 × 65.4 cm (32 1/8 × 25 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx
From 1904 through 1906, Pablo Picasso moved away from the melancholic subjects of his Blue Period to the more optimistic themes of his Rose Period. In the summer of 1906, the artist traveled to the Catalan village of Gósol; upon his return to Paris that autumn, he painted Half-Length Female Nude. In stark contrast to the gaunt visage of The Old Guitarist, the angular, masklike qualities of the figure’s face reveal Picasso’s growing interest in ancient Iberian sculpture and non-Western art. In this way, the work anticipates his breakthrough to Cubism in 1907.
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