Art, literature & history
Reclining Nude (Fernande)
1906
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- Watercolor and gouache with pencil and possibly charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.3 x 61.3 cm (18 5/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1954.865
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- Public domain (WikiArt label)License details
Pablo Picasso. Reclining Nude (Fernande). Image: WikiArt. Public domain (WikiArt label). Proportionally resized and JPEG compressed; no crop.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Reclining Nude (Fernande) — Pablo Picasso. 1906.
Medium: Watercolor and gouache with pencil and possibly charcoal on paper. Dimensions: Sheet: 47.3 x 61.3 cm (18 5/8 x 24 1/8 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
This drawing depicts Picasso's lover Fernande Olivier, with whom he spent the summer of 1906 in the remote Spanish village of Gósol, where he made this sheet. Picasso was engaged in radical experimentation with technique and simplified formal distortions at this time, and this shift in his work can be seen in Fernande's stylized face and somewhat disjointed gesture, and in the expressive strokes and spotted effects of the gouache.
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.