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Pablo Picasso Spanish
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 828
Picasso painted this work, one of his best-known neoclassical pictures, upon his return to Paris after a summer sojourn in Cap d'Antibes. There, he and his wife, Olga, socialized with the charismatic American expatriates Gerald and Sara Murphy. Because Sara Murphy had beautifully regular features, some writers believe that this canvas is a portrait of her. However, photographs that Picasso took of Olga posing in front of related classical heads demonstrate that at least she thought they were depictions of her.
This picture belonged to the New York collector Lillie P. Bliss, one of the founders of the Museum of Modern Art. She bequeathed the painting to the Modern, from whom The Met purchased the work in 1951 as part of a cooperative agreement (1947–53).
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Title: Woman in White
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
Date: 1923
Medium: Oil, water-based paint, and crayon on canvas
Dimensions: 39 × 31 1/2 in. (99.1 × 80 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, Lillie P. Bliss Collection
Accession Number: 53.140.4
Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Chronology
Iberian Peninsula, 1900 A.D.-present
Museum Publications
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 8, Modern Europe
Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Painters in Paris, 1895–1950
French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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