©Pablo Picasso - Still Life in Front of an Open Window at Saint-Raphael 1919

Spouses Sisley after the 'The Betrothed' by Auguste Renoir 1919 Still life in front of a window at Saint-Raphael 1919 Still life in front of a Window overlooking the Eglise St. Augustin 1919 Still Life in Front of an Open Window at Saint-Raphael 1919 Still life with pitcher and apples 1919 Table in front of window 1919 The student 1919
Still Life in Front of an Open Window at Saint-Raphael 1919

Still Life in Front of an Open Window at Saint-Raphael 1919
34x23cm watercolor and gouache
with graphite on wove paper
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA,USA
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes

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From Philadelphia Museum of Art:
Picasso made this watercolor in the summer of 1919 while vacationing with his first wife, Olga Koklova, in Saint-Raphaël on the French Riviera. The newlyweds shared a cramped room with a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The decorative ironwork of the balcony railings is clearly visible in this watercolor, in which a foreground table, with a fruit bowl and a guitar, is framed by a large window and silhouetted against a serene expanse of blue sea and sky. Juan Gris had similarly placed still-life elements before an open window as early as 1915, although Picasso's reprise of this theme was also indebted to his recent stage designs for the Ballets Russes.