Reclining Nude

'I naturally have evolved a type which is heavy built - a female form which is fulsome - and the reason for that is not simply because you see them all the time abroad, but because they fill the space: you get a fulsome coloured shape of a certain bulk on the canvas - it actually gives a lot to work with ... Picasso makes things heavy - he makes hands big and he makes legs thick. I started to see this in actual reality in peasant women in Italy. My mother was built like that a little bit. Every so often I have noticed in the figures that there is a kind of echo of my mother. So it's a mixture of two things - it is a mixture of an aesthetic use of a bulky shape as well as actually being a sympathetic female form' (C.Young and V. Keller, Alberto Morrocco 1917-1998, Edinburgh, 2008, p. 70).