Picasso, Femme À La Fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)

Femme À La Fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1936)

The painting Femme À La Fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) by Pablo Picasso is dated April 13, 1936. This masterpiece is one of many portraits Picasso dedicated to Marie-Thérèse Walter, his muse and lover, during a particularly creative period in his career.

Self-portrait

Picasso, la lecture

 

La Lecture, 1932

La Lecture is a painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in January 1932. The oil painting depicts Picasso's mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, asleep with a book upon her lap. The painting led to the breakup of Picasso's marriage to Olga Khokhlova after she saw it at a retrospective exhibition and realised that the facial features were not her own.

Picasso met Marie-Thérèse Walter in 1927 as she exited the Paris Metro and they later began a relationship, which they kept secret because she was only seventeen and Picasso was married to Olga Khokhlova.

From Fauve to Cubism: Geoges Braque

L'Estaque, 1906

Centre Goerges Pompidou, Paris

Antwerp, 1906, fauve style

The Gulf, Les Lecques 1906

Houses at L’Estaque, 1908

Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908

Head of a Woman 1909

Bottle and Fishes, 1910

Portuguese, 1911, cubism

Woman with a Guitar, 1913, cubism

"I couldn’t portray a women in all her natural loveliness… …I haven’t the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute.." 

Georges Braque, 1908

Cubism, one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century, was created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L’Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works "cubes".

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
In 1909, Braque began to work closely with Picasso, who had been developing a similar approach to oil painting. At the time Pablo Picasso was influenced by Gauguin, Cézanne, African tribal masks and Iberian sculpture, while Braque was mostly interested in developing Cézanne’s idea’s of multiple perspectives. “A comparison of the works of Picasso and Braque during 1908 reveals that the effect of his encounter with Picasso was more to accelerate and intensify Braque’s exploration of Cézanne’s ideas, rather than to divert his thinking in any essential way.” The invention of Cubism was a joint effort between Picasso and Braque, then residents of Montmartre, Paris. These artists were the movement’s main innovators. After meeting in October or November 1907, Braque and Picasso, in particular, began working on the development of Cubism in 1908. Both artists produced paintings of monochromatic color and complex patterns of faceted form, now called Analytic Cubism.

Picasso, from 1905 to 1910

 Boy Leading a Horse, 1905-1906

A boy with pipe, 1905

Girl on the ball, 1905

Bust of a Nude Woman (Fernande Olivier) 1906

Nude with a Pitcher, 1906

Female Bust, ca. 1907

Three Women (1908)

Femme à la mandoline, Paris, fin de l’été 1910

Guitar Player, 1910

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910)

Picasso, watercolors of Venice

Picasso, watercolors of Venice

John William Godward

Head of a girl also known as the priestess

Lycinna (1918)

A Pompeian Bath

Athenais (1908)

In the Tepidarium (1913)

 Delphic Oracle

A classical maiden

Far Away Thoughts

Sabinella

The Tambourine Girl, 1906

John William Godward (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite / Neo-Classicist era.
He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of painters like Picasso.
He committed suicide at the age of 61 and is said to have written in his suicide note that "the world was not big enough" for him and a Picasso.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Godward

Picasso, early works (1893-1904)

Plaster male torso (1893)

A spanish couple in front of inn (1900)

Self Portrait 1900

Nu aux bas rouges, 1901

Mother and Child (1901)

Self-Portrait, 1901

Yellow Irises, 1901

The corrida La Corrida 1901

Crouching woman, 1902

Mother and child, 1902

Blue Nude, 1902

Summer Landscape, 1902

Mother and Son with Handkerchief, 1903

Terrats de Barcelona (1903)

Standing young nude, 1904

Two Friends, 1904

Woman with Her ​​Hair in a Small Bun (1904)