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The painting was executed in the second half of 1901 following Picasso's successful exhibition at the Vollard gallery that June. This was at the start of his Blue Period of 1901 to 1904, thought to have been occasioned by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas earlier in the year, a time when his paintings were somewhat melancholic and characterized by somber monochromatic tones in blue ...
Femme aux Bras Croisés (English: Woman with Folded Arms), is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created between 1901 and 1902 during his Blue Period.The subject of the painting is unknown, but she is considered to be an inmate of the Saint-Lazare hospital-prison in Paris.
Woman Ironing (French: La repasseuse) [1] is a 1904 oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was completed during the artist's Blue Period (1901—1904). This evocative image, painted in neutral tones of blue and gray, depicts an emaciated woman with hollowed eyes, sunken cheeks, and bent form, as she presses down on an iron with all her will.
The oil painting on canvas features Picasso’s asymmetrical style of a woman in a blue dress with red lipstick. At just 24, Lo Rosso didn’t appreciate that the signature in the upper left ...
In May 2015, Picasso’s “Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) sold at Christie’s in New York for $179.4 million — at that time, the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction.
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The painting's title reflects the predominant use of blue shades throughout the painting. The image of the woman's bedroom is particularly notable, as it offers some insight into Picasso's own living quarters at the time. The setting for this painting was Picasso's own studio apartment, situated at 130 boulevard de Clichy.
Les Noces de Pierrette (English: The Marriage of Pierrette) is a 1905 painting by the Spanish artist and sculptor Pablo Picasso.While belonging chronologically to Picasso's Rose Period, it is artistically characteristic of the Blue Period, when the artist faced poverty and depression following the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas in 1901.