Pale face picasso biography
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In 1935, the photographer Dora Maar met Picasso and plunged into an romantisk händelse with him that would very nearly destroy her emotionally, as he encouraged her latent masochism and betrayed her repeatedly with other lovers. Ten years later, after the war and the affair were over, she suffered a mental collapse for which she was treated bygd Jacques Lacan, that dubious psychoanalyst de ces jours, who, according to John Richardson, “rescued her bygd transforming her from a surrealist rebel into a devout Catholic conservative.” As Maar herself said, “After Picasso, there is only God.”
These are the closing words in the fourth volume of Richardson’s mammoth biography of Picasso, and are the last we will have from him, for he died in 2019 at the age of 95. Maar’s confession is expressive of the level of slavish veneration Picasso enjoyed in the 1930s and 1940s, when he had ascended to giddy heights of fame and fortune. The veneration came not only from the ever-accumulating bevy of women to
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Girl in a Chemise
Painting by Pablo Picasso
| Girl in a Chemise | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Pablo Picasso |
| Year | c.1905 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 72.7 cm × 60 cm (28.6 in × 24 in) |
| Location | Tate |
Girl in a Chemise (French: Jeune femme en chemise) is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1905 by Pablo Picasso. It is a portrait of a girl, whom experts believe to be Madeleine, Picasso's girlfriend during this period. Stylistically, the painting belongs to Picasso's Rose Period, although it is predominantly blue in tone. The painting is particularly remarkable for the presence of an earlier portrait of a young boy hidden beneath the surface, which Picasso transformed into the girl by making some subtle changes. The portrait has been housed in the collection of the Tate since 1933.
Background
[edit]Picasso painted Girl in a Chemise sometime around 1905, at a point when his artwork was going through a transitional pha
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Blue Notes
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Back in Spain, Picasso and Casagemas had spent a week or so in Barcelona celebrating Christmas with their families before going on to Malaga for New Year. At the end of January, Picasso left for Madrid, where, with a friend from Els Quatre Gats, he founded an arts magazine, Arte Joven. (The first issue appeared in March 1901; there were just four subsequent issues.) He signed a year-long lease on a studio, evidently intending to stay in Madrid for at least twelve months, while Casagemas returned to Barcelona, but not for long. Soon, Casagemas was back in Paris, this time without Picasso.
In February 1901, still in Madrid, Picasso received tragic news. Casagemas, driven to despair by his unrequited love for the resistant Gabrielle, had shot himself dead in front of her in a restaurant in Montmartre – just like a melodrama in the Théâtre Montmartre. For Picasso, who had already suffered the anguish of his little sister’s untimely death, it