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The final version of Picasso's 1937 The Weeping Woman is an abstract portrait of a grief-stricken woman. It is an oil painting on canvas measuring 61 x 50 cm and is signed 'Picasso 37' near the centre on the right edge. It is one of a series of artworks based on the theme of a woman weeping, which Picasso created while producing Guernica. The ...
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.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso [a] [b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
Woman with a Fan is a 1909 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. [1] [2] [3] It has been held in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow since 1948.It was owned by collector Sergei Shchukin until being seized by the Russian state after the October Revolution in 1917 and assigned to the State Museum of Modern Western Art.
Girl before a Mirror (French: Jeune fille devant un miroir) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created in 1932.The painting is a portrait of Picasso's mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who is depicted standing in front of a mirror looking at her reflection.
The theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria took place on 2 August 1986 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.The stolen work was one of a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso all known as The Weeping Woman and had been purchased by the gallery for A$1.6 million in 1985—at the time the highest price paid by an Australian art gallery for an artwork.
The most well known of these portraits is The Weeping Woman. [27] Picasso was very inspired by the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War, and he thought of Maar as a living depiction of the pain and suffering that people experienced during this time. Maar did not appreciate Picasso's depiction of her in this way.
Weeping Woman may refer to: La Llorona, a Latin American legend La Llorona, a Guatemalan film also known as The Weeping Woman; The Weeping Woman, a 1937 painting by Pablo Picasso; A Woman Weeping, a 1644 painting by Rembrandt or a student of his; Weeping Woman and Mask of a Weeping Woman, 1885 sculptures by Auguste Rodin