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Pablo Picasso

Seated Woman with a Book (Femme assise au livre), ca. 1910

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Description

Maker

  • Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish

Title

Seated Woman with a Book (Femme assise au livre)

Year

ca. 1910

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

41.3 x 24.1 cm (16 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on reverse UR in black:Picasso

Place

France

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

51.094

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selected Works

European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exchange Exhibition, Exhibition Exchange

From the Collection of Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; From the Collection of The Museum of Art, Rhode

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to Twentieth-Century American Art

November 12, 2004 - March 5, 2005

"The Center Cannot Hold"

March 1 - July 1, 1999

Cubism and Its Affinities

September 1 - December 10, 1995

From the Reserve III

July 8 - December 4, 1994

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937

October 18, 1991 - January 26, 1992

Exchange Exhibition of Paintings from Rose Museum, Brandeis University

February 16 - April 2, 1967

European Galleries

In Picasso’s early Cubist paintings, subjects were often fragmented and presented from multiple points of view. Here he transforms a female figure into a rhythmic scaffold in which tonal modeling shifts through armatures of angled lines. Clues to her pose and physical identity appear in the ambiguous hieroglyphics that suggest her breasts and the references to her crossed legs, the book in her lap, and the chair on which she is perched. The subtle shift of palette from gray-brown to a soft blue suggests that the model is seated before an open window looking out on the sea.

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