Reclining Woman

Artist Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)

Dateca. 1938-1941

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions10 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (27.3 x 54.6 cm)
Framed: 15 5/8 × 26 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LinePromised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

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Celebrating Francis V. O’Connor

Label TextJackson Pollock reimagined the traditional subject of the reclining female nude when he painted Reclining Woman. Fragmented into unusual shapes and intensified by repetitive black lines, Pollock’s figure appears strange and anatomically distorted. Its misshapen limbs stretch at extreme angles, while an eye with a red pupil floats as if disconnected from the reclining body.

Jackson Pollock reinterpretó el tema tradicional del desnudo de mujer recostada cuando pintó Mujer recostada. La figura de Pollock, fragmentada en formas poco usuales e intensificada por las líneas negras que se repiten, tiene una apariencia extraña y con una anatomía distorsionada. Las extremidades deformes se alargan en ángulos extremos, mientras que un ojo con la pupila roja flota como si estuviese desconectado del cuerpo recostado.