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View source →Pablo Picasso, 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.)
Style
Rose Period figuration
Decade
1900s
The official Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois record identifies Half-Length Female Nude as a Pablo Picasso painting, dated autumn 1906, in Oil on canvas. 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.
Half-Length Female Nude is grouped under Rose Period for gallery navigation using the date published by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. This period label provides high-level art-historical orientation and does not supersede the primary collection record. The institutional credit line is: Gift of Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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