Art, literature & history
Reclining Nude
1929
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 83.4 × 119 cm (32 7/8 × 46 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1988.220
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- Public domain (WikiArt per-object label)License details
Max Beckmann. Reclining Nude. WikiArt: Public domain. Proportional resize and JPEG compression; no crop.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Reclining Nude — Max Beckmann. 1929.
Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 83.4 × 119 cm (32 7/8 × 46 13/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Reclining Nude depicts Mathilde Q. Beckmann (known as Quappi), the artist’s second wife and a talented singer and violinist. During his early career spent in Germany, Max Beckmann criticized the French avant-garde; by the mid-1920s, however, he began to identify with artists working in Paris, and by 1929 he was living, painting, and spending the majority of his time in the city. This painting of Quappi, nude and in a traditional artistic posture of repose, evokes similar compositions by Beckmann’s contemporaries Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso . This is one of thirty-five works that comprise the Winterbotham Collection. Click here to learn more about the collection.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.