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La Lecture de la Lettre (English: Reading the Letter) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he painted c. 1921, during his transition from Cubism to Neoclassicism, [1] very close to the time of the birth of his son, Paulo.
[112] The art critic Arthur Danto said Picasso's work constitutes a "vast pictorial autobiography" that provides some basis for the popular conception that "Picasso invented a new style each time he fell in love with a new woman". [112] The autobiographical nature of Picasso's art is reinforced by his habit of dating his works, often to the day.
Child with a Dove is an oil painting on canvas and measures 28.75 inches (73.0 cm) by 21.25 inches (54.0 cm). It is signed by Picasso on the centre left of the painting. It depicts a girl, with short ginger hair, wearing a white gown tied at the waist with a blue sas
[6] Picasso was the focus of Apollinaire's first important works of art criticism—his 1905 pieces on Picasso also provided the artist with his earliest major coverage in the French press [7] —and Picasso highly treasured Apollinaire's gift of the original manuscript of his pornographic novel Les Onze Mille Verges, published in 1907. [8]
Walter and Maya stayed with Picasso at Juan-les-Pins in the South of France [4] from 25 March to 14 May 1936, and then moved to Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre, 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Versailles, in autumn 1937. [7] Picasso visited on the weekends and some weekdays to play with his daughter.
Picasso's classical rendering of "Linda" was designed to convey an aura of purity that contrasts starkly with the harsh reality of her existence. An earlier pen and ink sketch suggests Picasso originally planned to paint the girl in a white dress, as if attending her first communion, with the red flowers symbolising the blood of the Eucharist.
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Two Girls Reading (French: Deux Enfants Lisant) is a 1934 painting by Pablo Picasso. Since 1994, it has been at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. [1] In 2002, UMMA included it in an exhibition called Picasso: Masterworks of the Collection. [2] [3]