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Nude in a Black Armchair
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
(1932)
- "Nude in a Black Armchair" (1932)
- "Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter with Garland" (1937)
- "Seated Woman, Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter" (1937)
- "Woman in Hat and Fur Collar" (1937)
- "Marie-Thérèse Leaning on One Elbow" (1939)
- Marie-Thérèse is extensively portrayed in Picasso's "Vollard Suite".
In popular culture.
Walter is played by Susannah