©Pablo Picasso - Reclining woman 1932
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Reclining woman 1932
101x93cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
Marie-Thérèse Walter, the subject of this sensuous painting, met the artist in 1927, when she was seventeen and he was forty-five. She became his lover and muse soon after. While the female form was not a new subject for Picasso, the flowing, curvilinear style and bright, saturated tones used to depicted Marie-Thérèse are departures from his earlier portrayals of women. By simplifying her voluptuous form into primary shapes, Picasso presents her figure as something resembling an ancient fertility object.