Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Portrait de Marie-Thérèse

Pablo Picasso - Portrait de Marie-Thérèse, 1937

Original poster
High-quality four-color printing
Signed on the plate
On coated paper
Picasso Estate - inscribed on the back of the poster
Printed in France
Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm
Condition: Excellent

Original poster issued under the supervision of the Picasso Estate, produced by the Picasso Museum, Paris
The work carries authentication inscriptions on its back in black ink on a white background.

Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909-1977) was one of Picasso's great muses.
Their meeting goes back to 1927, in Paris. Picasso was 45 then and Marie-Thérèse only 17. The painter was still married to Olga Khokhlova.

Their relationship, long kept secret, became a major source of inspiration. In 1935 their daughter Maya was born.
Marie-Thérèse inspired some of Picasso's brightest and most sensual compositions, notably Le Rêve (1932) and Femme à la fenêtre (1932).

1937 is a pivotal year in the artist's career.
Notably the year of Guernica, his enormous painting created in response to the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.
It is also a period when two women occupied an important place in his life: Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar.

Their portraits are very different.

Marie-Thérèse is often depicted with rounded forms, luminous colors, and a certain softness. Dora Maar frequently appears in compositions that are more angular and psychologically tense.

The Picasso Museum has regularly exhibited their portraits together to show these differences.

Like Chagall, Matisse, Pierre Soulages, or Kandinsky, Picasso shaped art in France, but also around the world.

P.S: The frame and the mat are not part of the lot. Thank you

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