Year 1932 Artist Pablo Picasso | Medium oil on canvas Created 9 March 1932–9 March 1932 | |
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Dimensions 162 cm × 130 cm (63.74 in × 51 in) Location Wexner Center for the Arts Similar Pablo Picasso artwork, Other artwork | ||
Nude in a Black Armchair (Nu au Fauteuil Noir) is a painting by Pablo Picasso. Painted on March 9, 1932, a time at which Picasso lived in Boisgeloup outside Paris, it is the first and largest of a series of paintings Picasso completed that year of his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter.
The art critic Richard Lacayo cites the painting as an example of the creative give-and-take between Picasso and Henri Matisse, in which Picasso "borrowed Matisse's voluptuous curves as a sign for pleasure and his use of black to intensify pink". Former Museum of Modern Art curator William Rubin deemed it a "squishy sexual toy," and other critics have described a theme of fecundity being mutually displayed by both the female figure and the plant.
In 1999 it was bought by Les Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, for $45.1 million.