Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Large Still Life with Pedestal Table

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Large Still Life with Pedestal Table
Alternate Title: 
Grande Nature morte au guéridon
Image View: 
Detail, abstraction of Marie-Thérèse's body, including her breasts
Creator: 
Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
Location: 
repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP134
Location Note: 
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date: 
1931 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
195 cm (height) x 130.5 cm (width)
Subjects: 
abstraction; portrait; still life; Walter, Marie-Thérèse
Description: 
This is both a still life and an abstracted portrait of Picasso's mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, which at the time was clandestine. Here she is portrayed as "woman as flower" or "woman as fruit." It was painted in Paris, March 11, 1931. (Source: Le Fur, Yves, ed.; Through the Eyes of Picasso: Face to Face with African and Oceanic Art, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2017 (978-2-08-020319-9))
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-LSP-A03
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.