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Nude in a Black Armchair Artist Pablo Picasso Year 1932 Type oil on canvas Dimensions 162 cm × 130 cm (63.74 in × 51 in) Location Wexner Center for the Arts Nude in a Black Armchair (Nu au Fauteuil Noir) is a portrait painted by Pablo Picasso on March 9, 1932[1] of his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. In 1999 it was bought by Les Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, for 45.1 million USD. Wexner then donated the piece to the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, for which he had provided major funding.
Former Museum of Modern Art curator William Rubin deemed it a "squishy sexual toy,"[2] with other critics describing a theme of fecundity being mutually displayed by both the female figure and the plant.[2] The first and the largest of a series of 1932 Marie-Thérèse Walter portraits, Picasso lived outside of Paris, in Boisgeloup, at the time.[1] It is important critically as it shows the give and take between Henri Matisse and Picasso, where Picasso "borrowed Matisse's voluptuous curves as a sign for pleasure and his use of black to intensify pink" according to the art critic, Richard Lacayo. [3]
References
- ^ a b INSIDE ART; Now Starring: A Picasso Nude, New York Times, September 24, 1999
- ^ a b ART REVIEW; Old Rivals, Immortal but Still Competing, New York Times, February 14, 2003
- ^ When Henri Met Pablo, Time Magazine, Monday, Feb. 24, 2003 By RICHARD LACAYO
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Pablo Picasso Periods Lists of works Artworks The Actor · Boy Leading a Horse · The Charnel House · Chicago Picasso · Don Quixote · Dora Maar au Chat · The Dream and Lie of Franco · Family of Saltimbanques · Femme aux Bras Croisés · Garçon à la pipe · Guernica · Jacqueline · Jeune Fille Endormie · La Lecture · Le Rêve · Les Demoiselles d'Avignon · Les Noces de Pierrette · Maya with Doll · Nude, Green Leaves and Bust · Nude in a Black Armchair · The Old Guitarist · Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto · Portrait of Suzanne Bloch · Reading the Letter · Sylvette · Tete de femme (Dora Maar) · The Three Dancers · Three Musicians · The Weeping Woman · Woman in Hat and Fur CollarPartners Fernande Olivier (1904 to 1911) · Eva Gouel (1912 to her death in 1915) · Olga Khokhlova (married 1918, to her death in 1955, mother of Paulo) · Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927 to 1935, mother of Maya) · Dora Maar (1936 to 1944) · Françoise Gilot (1944 to 1953, mother of Claude and Paloma) · Geneviève Laporte (during the 1950s) · Jacqueline Roque (married 1961 to Picasso's death 1973)Family Colleagues Patrons Museums Château Grimaldi (Antibes) · Museu Picasso (Barcelona) · Musée Picasso (Paris) · Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga)See also Wikimedia Categories:- 1932 paintings
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