I will quote here the description from the MOMA where the painting is currently on display: What makes it really interesting is that we see a sleeping woman next to the mirror not only she doesn’t look at the mirror, but she even can’t do it – she sleeps! Yet the mirror is here, and actively interact, if not with the woman then with us, allowing us to see – her backside? or her dreamside? It’s a very Alice-in-the-Looking-Glass a work, very mysterious and magical.Īpparently this year, 1932, was a climax of the relationshiops if Picasso with the mirrors it is in this year he also creates his most beautiful works, Jeune fille devant le miroir, Girl before a mirror (1932): Some of these portraits have mirrors – and what mirrors they are! In the same 1932 Picasso creates of the most interesting and original works, titled simply as The Mirror: The above works are all interesting, original & stuff, but Picasso has also created a series of really beautiful and lyrical portraits of his new muse, like this Le Rêve (Dream) (1932) Marie-Thérèse Walter (1929) & Bather with Beach Ball (1929) Picasso was incredibly envious and driven by vanity, and Matisse was one of his life-long arch-art-rivals.īut Picasso created many more portraits of Marie-Thérèse, where it’s either very obvious that it’s her, or else we have another proofs – like the photographs or the records in his diary: Or may be it’s a revenge, but to a very different person – many critics noticed that this portrait is an art replica to the famous Matisse’s Odalisque (1926): I don’t know if this portrait, of so called Large Nude is of Olga (and thus partly a revenge), or already of Marie-Thérèse: Picasso never divorce here, I guess partly because of his Catholic roots, but also due to the fact that in his matrimonial contract he assigned half of his works to Olga, in case of their divorce). Their relationships started almost from the first day of their meeting, but always remained secret and unofficial (well, it was Secret de Polichinelle, since almost everybody knew about them, including his wife Olga). When they met, she was 17, and Picasso already 45. (1928) – as well as many other works of the end of 1902-s show that he decided not to stay behind and sail with the new winds:Ĭoincidentally his relationships with Olga become more distant and detached, and in 1927 he finds new love, his new mistress and muse for almost ten years, Marie-Thérèse Walter.
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