At one time, he painted a copy of the painting and, as a practical joke, sent it to be exhibited as the original at a Belgrade exhibition [1] of French painting in 1939. Femme nue couchée was “a deeply lyrical ode to the artist’s unbound desire for Marie-Thérèse; with her fin-like, endlessly pliable limbs, the portrait continues to enchant as it perfectly captures Picasso’s muse as the ultimate expression of his genius”. Basel, Kunstmuseum; London, The Tate Gallery; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Douglas Cooper and the Masters of Cubism, 1987-88, no. This remarkable series allows a glimpse of the intimacy and dream-like atmosphere which prevailed between Picasso and Marie-Thérèse at this time; as John Richardson, the artist's biographer, has described, ‘The small reclining nudes of Marie-Thérèse asleep exude a tenderness and intimacy that was missing from most of the larger, more stylised portraits that Picasso had done of her for his retrospective’ ( A Life of Picasso, Volume III, The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, London, 2007, pp.

Just two days later, on 18th June, having escaped the hordes of admirers, critics and journalists eager to see the artist and his work, and with his wife and son away in Juans-les-Pins, Picasso was back in Boisgeloup, his idyllic rural château north west of Paris, where he could once again indulge in his muse unimpeded. Museo Nacional del Prado), the first painting publicly to depict pubic hair ( Gustave Courbet, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008, exhibition catalogue, cat. Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger: Douglas Cooper Collecting Cubism, 1990, no. He became involved in the Intimist movement, along with Ernest Laurent, Charles Cottet, Henri le Sidaner and René Ménard, whose pastels presaged the Classicism of the 1930s.It is a remarkable painting that, in its unsparing and still relevant engagement with the truth of the figure, will resonate with a new audience of artists and viewers. Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Montpellier, Muse´e Fabre, Gustave Courbet, October 2007-September 2008, no.

It is a look shared between the one they have on themselves and that which society sends them and the links that are established between the two. Exclusive to Tate, it’s been created especially to celebrate The EY Exhibition: The Making of Rodin at Tate Modern. Courbet’s Femme Nue Couchée played a key part in the dramatic revolution in painting in mid-19th century Paris. Martin Duque is inspired by major visual artists like Velazquez or even Rodin, not to mention Degas.

Femme Nue Couchée was acquired by Baron Ferenc Hatvany from the Berlin dealer Paul Cassirer in 1912, the same year that he purchased L’Origine du monde from the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in Paris.