Reclining Nude
Max Beckmann · 1929 · Art Institute of Chicago
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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.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Details
- Maker
- Max Beckmann, German, 1884–1950
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 83.4 × 119 cm (32 7/8 × 46 13/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · On view · Gallery 392
- Credit line
- Joseph Winterbotham Collection
