Seated Nude

Pablo Picasso

1908 · Charcoal and graphite on paper · Modern and Contemporary Art

Picasso had first encountered African carvings in the studio of Henri Matisse. Writers believe that this drawing evokes the African Fang masks Picasso had seen during his repeated visits to the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro (now part of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) in the spring of 1908.

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Date

1908

Medium

Charcoal and graphite on paper

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982