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Standing Nude

1907–8
Not on view
Following the completion of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), Picasso began to work on a large group of paintings and watercolors of single or several figures melded into their surroundings, as if they were emerging from drapery or clay. Picasso likely made this watercolor immediately after finishing Standing Nude (MMA 67.162). Shadows that are there penciled in are here colored with blue watercolor. Both works show Picasso revising and perfecting his ideas as he worked step-by-step through certain problems he had set for himself.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Standing Nude
  • Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
  • Date: 1907–8
  • Medium: Watercolor over charcoal on paper
  • Dimensions: 24 3/16 × 18 5/8 in. (61.5 × 47.3 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
  • Object Number: 1999.363.62
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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Drawing of Two Medieval Swords, Mariano Fortuny Marsal Spanish, Paper, ink, graphite, Spanish
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Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso Spanish, Oil on canvas
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