©Pablo Picasso - Female nude sitting in red armchair 1932
Female nude sitting in red armchair 1932
129x97cm oil/canvas
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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From Tate Gallery, London:
This work belongs to the remarkable sequence of portraits that Picasso made of Marie-Thérèse Walter at his country property at Boisgeloup. Marie-Thérèse is presented here – as in most of her portraits – as a series of sensuous curves. Even the scrolling arms of the chair have been heightened and exaggerated to echo the rounded forms of her body. The face is a double or metamorphic image: the right side can also be seen as the face of a lover in profile, kissing her on the lips.