Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Femme debout tenant deux enfants, 1901 Charcoal on paper, signed upper right 31 x 22 cm - 12 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. PROVENANCE Collection madame Pierre de Saint-Fucien Puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel, vers 1970Collection privée, France BIBLIOGRAPHIE C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux années 1892-1902, Editions Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1969, vol. 21, n°278 p.105 It was in this spirit that he visited the Saint-Lazare women's prison several times at the end of the summer of 1901. There he observed and drew inspiration from former prostitutes and their children. The maternal silhouette in our drawing could correspond to the portraits he made there. The artist draws a mother surrounded by her two children with thick, quick and lively strokes. The three characters are intertwined. The mother's body, all oblique, dominates the composition, which gives a sculptural dimension to the whole. The mother's face is stylized when the chil­dren's faces are hidden from the viewer. He does not identify his models but creates a new, miserable type of motherhood. This work in a few precise strokes thus sees the birth of Picasso's Blue Period, a period that reveals the immense talent of the artist and highlighted by Ambroise Vollard himself during a retrospective in 1910. PABLO PICASSO Born in 1881 in Andalusia and died in 1973 in Mougins, Pablo Picasso is an emblematic and even mythical figure of modern art. He crossed the 20th century by bringing his personal touch and his always innovative look within each of the great artistic currents that marked this century. The year 1901 was an important turning point in the famous painter's artistic career. He spent the first part of the year in Spain, where he participated in the creation of Arte Joven. This is an independent and avant-garde magazine that aims to present the new artistic scene. Then, as agreed the previous year, the ninetee
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