Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Woman in Blue
Alternate Title:
Mujer en azul
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS01618
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1901 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Spanish
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
133 cm (height) x 100 cm (width)
Subjects:
portrait
Description:
Painted during one of two short stays in Madrid. Having shown the painting at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1901 where it received only an honorable mention, Pablo Picasso decided not to pick the painting up when the event closed. Decades later the picture was found by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, the director from 1954 of what was then called the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, so the painting became part of the State collections. Pío Baroja commented, "When he was in Madrid, Pablo Picasso had taken a studio near the Calle Zurbano, where he spent his time painting women from memory with a certain Parisian air, and round, rosebud mouths. Picasso was a keen-eyed man, with an ironic, mocking smile." (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PICASSO-SRS-WIB- A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Woman in Blue