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+ = What kind of mirror?
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That’s how
Picasso’s art (and life) are usually
presented
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His life, his art, his women, and their mirrors
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When talking the story about Picasso’s mirrors, I would also add to the typical periodization
the thread about his ‘woman’…
…and also a small pre(hi)story…
…and some (post)story, too…
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José Ruiz y Blasco, father of Pablo Picasso
{the drawing by Pablo Picasso, c. 1896}
María Picasso y López, mother of Pablo Picasso
Young Pablo Picasso and his sister Lola
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Portrait of the mother (1896) Portrait of the father (1896)
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Copy of a Portrait of Philippe IV, by Diego Velazquez, c.1653 (1898)
Portrait of an Unknown Man (in the style of El Greco) (1899)
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Ciencia y Caridad {Science and Charity} (1897)
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It’s fairly large painting (2m x 2,5m),
currently in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona
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The earliest known study for the painting;
there is ‘something’ on the wall, above the head of the sick woman.
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But this ‘something’ disappears in all next sketches and studies:
1. 2.
3.
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To only appear again in the final work… … and in a very BIG way (the size of this ‘thing’ is almost 30 cm high irl).
I argue this may well be a ‘mirror’ - or rather a devotional object that embeds mirror.
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Similar to the one we see in one of the panels of the altarpiece by Bernard van Orley, so called The Virtue of Patience (1521)
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Or to the mirror-like medallion in the Birth of John the Baptist
by Juan de Flandes (1499)
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Or in the Birth of the Virgin by Jan de Beer (1521)
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Or many other mirror-like ‘things’ we find in a large amount
of religions works of 15-16 century… … including the most famous (and most
misunderstood) ‘mirror’ of all.
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Mère et enfant avec des fleurs {Mother and child with the flowers} (1901)
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Rendez-vous (1900)
Picasso in Barcelona:
Jeanne (1901)
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En el camerino {In the dressing room} (1900)
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Female Nude with Mirror (1901)
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La chambre bleue (Le tub) {A blue room (A tub)} (1901)
A mirror?
Or two?
Or three?
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La mort de-Casagemas (1901)
Évocation (L'Enterrement de Casagemas) {Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas)} (1901)
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And many other fantastic artworks… but no mirrors.
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Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905-1906)
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Kees van Dongen - Portrait of Fernande Olivier (1905) Picasso and Fernande Olivier
on Montmartre with the dogs (1904)
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Nu assis {Seated nude},
allegedly Fernande Olivier (1905) La coiffur (Fernande Olivier)
{Woman Combing Her Hair} (1906)
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La toilette (1906) La toilette (Fernande) (1906)
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La jeune fille à la chèvre
{The girl with a goat} (1906) The Harem (1906)
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Nu tenant un miroir (1906)
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Le Toilette de la Mere,
from La Suite des Saltimbanques (1905) The Harlequin's Family (1905)
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Femme se regardant dans un miroir tenu par un enfant
{Woman looking into a mirror held by a child} (1905)
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El peinado
(La coiffure, Hairdressing) (1906)
175 x 100 cm
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La coiffure (1906) - detail: who holds the mirror?
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
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Kyung Min Nam - Picasso's Atelier (2008) Herman Braun-Vega -
Apres e bain... (Velazquez, Rembrandt, Picasso) (2000)
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Woman Resting on Her Elbow (Madonna) (1909) L'Amitié {Friendship} (1908)
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Woman with mandolin (1909) La femme au miroir (1909)
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Analytical & Synthetic Cubism(s) Harlequin (1915)
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Marcelle Humbert (1912) aka Eva Gouel (1914)
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Le peintre et son modèle
{The painter and his model} (Eva Gouel) (1914)
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Leon Bakst - Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev with His Nanny (1906)
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Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova (c.1917)
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Curtain for the Parade ballet (c.1917), the largest artwork by Pablo Picasso (10,5 x 16,4 m)
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Olga (1923) Paul as Harlequin (1924)
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Artists’ salon at rue La Boétie - Jean Cocteau, Olga, Erik Satie, Clive Bell (1919)
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Femme et enfant au bord de la mer
{Woman with a child on a seacoast} (1921)
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Femme et enfant
Woman and child (1923)
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Deux femmes et enfant
{Two women and a child) (1922) Hairdressing (1923)
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Harlequin with a mirror (1923)
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Nu assis (Seated woman with a mirror) (1922-23)
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Baigneuse (1928)
Grand nu au fauteuil rouge {Large nude in red armchair} (1929)
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Marie-Thérèse Walter (1929)
& Bather with Beach Ball
Marie-Thérèse Walter (1928) &
Tall Bather
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Le Rêve (Dream) (1932) The Mirror (1932)
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Jeune fille devant le miroir {Girl before a mirror} (1932)
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Moments of restoration of the - rather large, 160 x 130 cm - painting.
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After Jeune fille devant le miroir
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A WAY after Jeune fille devant le miroir
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Mirros after Jeune fille devant le miroir
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La dormeuse au miroir {Sleeping girl in front of mirror} (1932)
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Femme avec un-livre
{Woman with a Book} (1932) Nu au bouquet d'iris et au miroir
(Nude with irises and mirror) (1934)
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Portrait of woman in front of a mirror (1936) Portrait of woman (1936)
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Fille dessinant à l'intérieur
{Interior with a girl drawing} (1935)
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Woman painting at the mirror (A Muse) (1935)
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Femme dessinant et femme assoupie
{Woman drawing and sleeping woman} (1935)
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Femme au miroir {Woman at a mirror } (1937)
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Sculptor and his model before a mirror (1933)
Quatre femmes nues et tête sculptée (Four nudes with a sculpture of head} (1934)
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Guernica (1937)
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Creation of Guernica documented by Dora Maar
Dora Maar, c.1946
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Portrait de Dora Maar (1938) Buste de femme (Dora Maar) (1938)
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Femme à la montre
{Woman with a watch} (1936) Femme au miroir
{Woman with a mirror} (1937)
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Woman and injured faun (1938)
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Dora Maar - Untitled (Hand and Mirror) (1934)
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La nymphe et le satyre
{The nymph and satyr} (1940)
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Robert Doisneau - Francoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso (1952)
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Portrait de Françoise (1946)
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Woman before the mirror (1948)
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Women with a mirror (1950)
Nudes with the mirror (1950)
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Hibou sur une chaise
{Owl on a chair} (1947) Hibou sur une chaise
{Owl on a chair} (1947)
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Jacqueline Roque (c.1955)
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Jacqueline aux mains croisées
{Jacqueline with crossed hands} (1954) Femme nue au bonnet turc
{Nude woman in a Turkish cap} (1954)
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Femme au miroir (1959)
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Femme au miroir (1963) The toilette (1954)
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Les deux amies
(Two women} (1965)
Femmes nues au mirroir {Nudes with the mirror} (1965)
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Nude with a mirror (1967)
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Nu debout et flutiste (1967)
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Man looking in a mirror (1969)
Woman with her mirror and man in a Rembrandtesque hat, from 347 Suite (1968)
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1896
1901
1906
1938
1965
1972
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Ricardo Canals in the studio
(with Picasso in the mirror taking the photograph) (1904)
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Man Ray
Brassaï
Robert Capa Robert Doisneau
André Villers Irving Penn
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André Villers: Picasso & Mirrors
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André Villers: Picasso & (Self) Portrait in Mirror
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Picasso & Masquerade
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Picasso &
Unknown Mirrors
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PS: The (post)story
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& so what?