Afternoon nap

In the tranquillity of this drawing lies a voluptuousness and sensualism of form that refers to a neoclassical tradition, Almada Negreiros's (1893-1970) principal references having been Picasso and Ingres. Subtle anatomic disfigurements, provoking extensions and distortions, are analysed in the light of cubism, lending a languorous energy to the drawing's spatial development, detailed with erotically charged connotations, as in the sinuous shadings on the girl's body.