Pablo Picasso b.1881 d.1973. Great Spanish artist.
The painting is an oil on canvas painted in the Autumn of 1948. The story behind the painting is about a romance Picasso had with his lover Françoise Gilot in Paris in the late 1940's. Picasso was already 64 years old at the end of the Second World War in 1945. At the time Françoise, 28 years old, was pregnant with the couple’s second child, Paloma, and she was
angry that Picasso had left her all alone in Paris whilst he had made a trip to Warsaw to attend a Communist conference in Poland for several weeks. Françoise certainly knew of her lover's previous string of affairs and was always concerned she might be left alone. They had 2 children together: Claude born in 1947 and Paloma in 1949. Picasso had joined the Communist party in 1944 in the fight against Fascism. When Picasso had returned he had brought a gift of a red Polish peasant jacket which quickly appeased her anger as she took to wearing the jacket as is depicted in this painting. After the end of the second World War there was a great vibrancy in Europe with the eagerness for peace and reconstruction. the mood was more cheerful and that optimism can be found in this period of Picasso's life where his paintings exhibited more color and energy. Avoiding pressure to depict more Communist philosophical themes with the success of the Communists over the fascists Picasso turned to more personal themes with a new color and hope in his life. typically the painting captures Françoise in a form of color and symbolic shapes and meanings that retains all the poise and charm of a natural image rendition.
The painting was recently sold to Chinese movie tycoon Wang Zhong who bought this fabulous Picasso 2 weeks ago for $29.9 million. Oil on canvas auctioned by the Goldwyn family collection on Tuesday 5h May 2015 at Sotheby's New York.
Reflections on art by Pieter Bergli
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