Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Nude Youth with Arms Raised
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
Location:
exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Location Note:
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date:
1907 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
drawing (visual work)
Classification:
Drawings and Watercolors
Material:
pastel, chalk on paper
Technique:
drawing (image-making)
Subjects:
abstraction; human figure
Description:
Painted in Paris, 1907, and shows the influence of African sculpture. Similar to some other studies for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, created in the same year. Considered part of his African Period and Proto-Cubist. (Source: Le Fur, Yves, ed.; Through the Eyes of Picasso: Face to Face with African and Oceanic Art, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2017 (978-2-08-020319-9))
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-NY A-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Nude Youth with Arms Raised