Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Dora Maar au Chat (English: Dora Maar with Cat) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1941 and depicts Dora Maar (original name Henriette Theodora Markovitch), the artist's lover, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders.
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.
[2] Picasso painted Maar in the Surrealist style, using bright colours and angular shapes. Although her posture reflects a more traditional style of representation in art, her form is composed of short, sharp, broken lines. Musée Picasso Paris suggests that this is a symbol of the subject's perceived psychological imbalance. The image also ...
The Picasso pieces are now displayed in an upgraded restroom with a fully functional toilet dubbed “Ladies Room,” located within the art venue, Kaechele said in an e-mail.
Pablo Picasso, 1901, Old Woman (Woman with Gloves), oil on cardboard, 67 x 52.1 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art Le Gourmet, 1901, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pedro Mañach, 1901, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pablo Picasso, 1901, Harlequin and his Companion (Les deux saltimbanques), oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow Pablo Picasso, 1901, Portrait de ...
During the creation of Guernica, Picasso made his first studies of a weeping woman on 24 May 1937, however, it was not to be included in the composition of Guernica.An image of the weeping woman was inserted in the lower right of the painting, but this was removed by Picasso, who considered that it would upstage the agonised expressions of the four women in the painting.
Les Femmes d'Alger (English: Women of Algiers) is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.The series, created in 1954–1955, was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's 1834 painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement). [1]
Kaboul entered Picasso's life in October 1961 as a gift from Jean Leymarie for Picasso's 80th birthday. After just a few weeks Picasso began to include the dog in his artwork. Kaboul was both a fierce guard dog and a faithful, affectionate companion. He outlived Picasso and remained with Roque at Notre-Dame-de-Vie until his death in 1975. [4]