Nu couché. 1970.
Colored chalk drawing.
Signed and dated "25.7.70" in the upper left. On wove paper. 46 x 61.2 cm (18.1 x 24 in), the full sheet.
[KT].

• No other artist had such a lasting influence on the art of the 20th century as Picasso.
The reclining female nude, the model seen through the painter's eyes, is one of the central themes in Picasso's oeuvre.
• Rare, highly colorful drawing from the summer of 1970, created in Mougins, Picasso's refuge in his late creative period.
• Picasso's work was characterized by an inexhaustible creative quest until the end.
• In 1971, a retrospective to mark Picasso's 90th birthday was held at the Louvre, making him the first artist to receive this honor during his lifetime.
• On the 50th anniversary of his death in 2023, Picasso was honored with exhibitions worldwide .

PROVENANCE: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Galerie Boulakia, Paris.
Gunnar Sandhal Anderson, Amsterdam.
Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg.
Private collection Italy.
From a Swiss collection.

LITERATURE: Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1970, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 32, Paris 1977, p. 76, cat. rais. no. 241 (illustrated).
Alan Wofsy, The Picasso Project. Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. A comprehensive illustrated catalogue 1885-1973, The Final Years 1970-1973, San Francisco 2004, p. 79, cat. no. 70-2075 (illustrated).

"The public is shocked by every new Picasso until astonishment gives way to admiration."
Ambroise Vollard, Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux, Paris 1937, p. 317.

"As a child, I drew like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like a child.“
”There is an artist in every child. The problem is to remain an artist when growing up."
Pablo Picasso, Propos sur l'art, Paris 1998