Pablo Picasso
Quatre nus à la fleur effeuillée (Four Nudes with a Leafless Flower), 1968
Signed 'Picasso', dated 'Vendredi 16.2.68' and numbered 'II' (lower left)
Pencil on paper
48.5 by 60 cm (19⅛ by 23⅝ in.)
67103
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Executed on February 16, 1968. 'One must paint like Ingres', Picasso once said [1]. Between December 1967 and February 1968 he created a group of drawings inspired by Ingres’ masterpiece...
Executed on February 16, 1968.
"One must paint like Ingres", Picasso once said [1]. Between December 1967 and February 1968 he created a group of drawings inspired by Ingres’ masterpiece Le Bain turc, now at the Musée du Louvre, a painting of nude female figures in a harem depicted in a variety of poses and occupied with different activities. At this point in his career, Picasso based his paintings and works on paper on the Old Masters, combining the classical with the modern, consciously placing himself within the canon of Western art.
[1] Pablo Picasso, quoted in Late Picasso (London: The Tate Gallery, 1988), 36.
"One must paint like Ingres", Picasso once said [1]. Between December 1967 and February 1968 he created a group of drawings inspired by Ingres’ masterpiece Le Bain turc, now at the Musée du Louvre, a painting of nude female figures in a harem depicted in a variety of poses and occupied with different activities. At this point in his career, Picasso based his paintings and works on paper on the Old Masters, combining the classical with the modern, consciously placing himself within the canon of Western art.
[1] Pablo Picasso, quoted in Late Picasso (London: The Tate Gallery, 1988), 36.