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Marie-Therese, 1937
One eye in profile,
the other full face, the nose sideways, the chin twisted in an angular or bleated face
surmounted by a grotesque hat: this is the way most painting. His name has become a
kind of description. ‘It’s like a Picasso’ is often said to mean that
something is distorted. Why did Picasso spend his time shattering the human face,
tuning it upside down? Each of these portraits expresses a particular vision of
women. They are comical, pitiful, dramatic or grotesque.
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Always painted in cool, tender colours - blue, green, lilac, yellow -
Marie-Therese’s form is rendered here with curving, harmonious lines. She is
easily recognizable in the many, very different paintings that Picasso did of her.
He showed her reading or sleeping, abandoning herself to the painter’s gaze.
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