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Seated Female Nude, her Hand on her Head
Also titled Zittend vrouwelijk naakt, haar hand op het hoofd
Theo van Doesburg (Utrecht, 1883–1931)
1916
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 229 mm x width 159 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
Van Doesburg described in a letter that he had attempted ‘to introduce rhythmical movement in the torso and create a flat sense of space through lines and planes’ in this work. The drawing was the result of ‘further abstraction,’ by which he meant reducing the subject-matter to elementary forms. As for his colleague Mondrian, for Van Doesburg this was the path to a new, universal art.
