# Seated Female Nude, her Hand on her Head

- By: Theo van Doesburg (Utrecht, 1883–1931)
- Date: 1916
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 229 mm x width 159 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1955-62--2cd20c9e7c947693822e0213bf6c133a)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/IYXpU/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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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.