Nude on a black armchair

Nude in a Black Armchair (Nu au Fauteuil Noir) is a portrait painted by Pablo Picasso on March 9, 1932 of his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. In 1999 it was bought by Les Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, for 45.1 million USD. Wexner then donated the piece to the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, for which he had provided major funding. Former Museum of Modern Art curator William Rubin deemed it a "squishy sexual toy," with other critics describing a theme of fecundity being mutually displayed by both the female figure and the plant. The first and the largest of a series of 1932 Marie-Thérèse Walter portraits, Picasso lived outside of Paris, in Boisgeloup, at the time. It is important critically as it shows the...