For Treger, the idea of a muse is far from straightforward. 'Muses have evolved throughout history,' she says.
69 x 49.6 cm. (27.2 x 19.5 in.) ...
Picasso asked in 1945 ... In this fluid, half-classical, half-Cubist profile, Maar is not the weeping woman as she was later rendered, but a spiky free spirit. ‘Blue Nude, Skipping Rope ...
Highlights from the collection include Picasso’s La Femme qui pleure I (Weeping Woman I), Rembrandt’s etching The Three Crosses, Erich Heckel’s Fränzi liegend and Edvard Munch’s Angst. The collection ...
Picasso chose to focus on the horror of the bombing of the small Basque town of Guernica, bombed at General Franco’s request. Some 1700 people were killed or wounded. The study of a weeping woman, her ...
“It’s definitely up there,” confirmed NGV director Tony Ellwood. The gallery’s most valuable work remains Pablo Picasso’s ...
The proximity in Picasso’s mind of the two images – the mother of the dead child and the weeping woman – can be gauged by two oil sketches dated by Zervos to the same day, 22 June (Ζ IX 49, 50). That ...
The grace to age in public; the grace to put art at the center of one’s life and not have to be a woman or a mother first ... mermaids with sharp teeth, weeping martyrs, witches in purple ...
Maar Dora peels back the creation myth behind Picasso’s The Weeping Woman, and reveals how Maar’s passionate pursuit of photography was quashed by Picasso’s narcissistic yearning for control. Spiky ...
While the man puts his arm around the woman, the two avoid eye contact, staring blankly in opposite directions. Picasso ...
A large collection of print works by Pablo Picasso, set to go on display at The British Museum, will offer new insight into ...
There is no point in deploring the unlikelihood of consent in the Minotaur Caressing a Sleeping Woman (Picasso did not choose his titles); you go with it. Interestingly, it’s a play on a similar ...