Pablo Picasso Woman with Book Framed Oil on Canvas Painting 29x33 Repro
Frame is 32 1/2" H x 28 1/2" W
Stretched canvas is 24" H x 20" W
Licensed reproduction oil on canvas,
Original was painted1932

Among Picasso’s most celebrated likenesses of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, Woman with a Book balances sensuality and restraint, enclosing exuberant, thickly applied color in a network of sinuous black lines. The composition pays homage to the Neoclassical master of line, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, whose work Picasso had admired since his youth, and whose Portrait of Madame Moitessier the Spanish painter had first encountered in 1921. Resting his model’s head on her hand, and replacing Madame Moitessier’s fan with the fluttering pages of a book, Picasso tapped into the eroticism latent beneath Ingres’s image of bourgeois respectability. The serene profile reflected in a mirror at right in Picasso’s portrait likewise references its Neoclassical precedent but may also constitute an abstract self-portrait.

Excellent condition other than small scuffs on lower frame corners.
10 lbs
SKU 5533

36x36x4 13#
2003