Portrait of Jacqueline, 1954

      Picasso sought to express not only his model’s character and her particular gestures, but also the feelings that she aroused in him.  For each type of woman there was a corresponding style.  Distortions resulted form his desire to show everything on one canvas, to present the female model in all her aspects simultaneously - full face, profile and three- quarters view.  But as there was only one plane, the canvas, the face had to be twisted to allow all these parts to be seen successively.

Portrait of Jacqueline, 1954

       Jacqueline Roque - with her Grecian profile, straight nose and large, almond-shaped eyes - represented of Picasso the Mediterranean women.  He often depicted her kneeling, dressed in Turkish costume.  In this portrait he simplified the planes of her face in order to render the rigorous purity of her features.

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