Les femmes d'Alger
Les Femmes d'Alger (German: The Women of Algiers ) is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso from the period late 1954 / early 1955. The series with versions A to O was inspired by Eugène Delacroix ' Painting The women of Algiers in their room (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement ) from 1834 and was at the same time a homage to the painter Henri Matisse, who died in 1954 and who was valued by Picasso .
history
The entire series of Les Femmes d'Alger was purchased by Victor and Sally Ganz from Galerie Louise Leiris (a gallery of Daniel Henry Kahnweiler ) in Paris for $ 212,500 in June 1956. Ten paintings from the series were later sold to the Saidenberg Gallery. The Ganzs kept the versions C, H, K, M and O. Version C was sold in 1988 after the death of Victor Ganz, the remaining versions were auctioned individually in 1997 at Christie's , New York. Many of the individual images in the series are currently represented in important public and private collections.
Version "O"
| Les femmes d'Alger (version "O") |
|---|
| Pablo Picasso , 1955 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 114 x 146.4 cm |
| Private collection
Link to the picture |
The last version of Les femmes d'Alger (version “O”) was auctioned again at Christie's in New York in May 2015 for around 179 million dollars (including commission ). A new record price for paintings was achieved, which was set in November 2017 by the auction of the painting Salvator mundi by Leonardo da Vinci .
The version "O" depicts a scene from a harem and shows four bare-breasted women, painted in strong colors in a mixture of abstract and realistic. It was created as a homage by Picasso to his colleague Henri Matisse, who died in November 1954, who had used odalisques as motifs. In 1997 the picture was auctioned at Christie's for $ 32 million. The picture also became the most expensive Picasso ever to be auctioned. It broke the 2010 record of $ 106.5 million for its green leaf and bust nude .
literature
- Siegfried Gohr : Pablo Picasso. Life and work. I do not search, I find. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7743-4 , pp. 144-146
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christie's to Offer Picasso's Iconic Masterpiece of the 1950s , christies.com, March 25, 2015, accessed July 30, 2015
- ↑ Da Vinci painting auctioned for $ 450,312,500 , spiegel.de, October 16, 2017
- ↑ Most expensive picture in the world: $ 179 million for Picasso's 'Les femmes d'Alger' on spiegel.de, May 12, 2015
- ↑ Picasso auctioned for almost 180 million dollars , welt.de, May 12, 2015, accessed on August 7, 2015
