Femme allongée (Lying Woman)Pablo Picasso

Drawn just a year before his death, this 1972 ink sketch reveals Picasso’s late style—raw, erotic, and expressive. The reclining woman, contorted in pleasure, evokes fertility and primal sensuality. With a few bold lines, Picasso reasserts his lifelong obsession with the female form, collapsing body, identity, and emotion into a single sweeping gesture.