Pablo Picasso: Girl before a Mirror: MoMA One on One Series - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870708295 ISBN 13: 9780870708299

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012

Synopsis

“Girl before a Mirror” (1932), one of several standouts in MoMA’s vast collection of Pablo Picasso’s work, takes the traditional artistic theme of a woman before her mirror and reinvents it in radically modern terms. The girl’s profile and blonde hair identify her as Marie-Thérèse Walter, the artist’s lover, muse and a profoundly transformative presence in both his life and art, but the painting is far from a conventional portrait. Its dazzling jewel-like colors, boldly contoured shapes and surface patterning transform the girl and her shadowy reflection into a deeply mysterious image that is both captivating and strange. In her essay, MoMA’s Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Anne Umland, explores this work in depth and describes the circumstances of its creation: the artist’s private life, his practice as a sculptor, his rivalry with other artists both living and dead and his concern, at the age of 51, about his contemporary relevance and artistic legacy.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0870708295
• ISBN 13: 9780870708299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48