Melancholy (picasso)
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| Pablo Picasso , 1902 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 100 x 69.2 cm |
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Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit
Link to the picture |
Melancholie (also listed as Melancholy Woman ; Melancholy Woman ) is an oil painting created in 1902 by Pablo Picasso with the dimensions 100 × 69.2 cm. It dates from its Blue Period and is currently owned by the Detroit Institute of Arts .
description
A dark-haired young woman in blue clothes is sitting in front of a window - in a side view - on a bench with her arms crossed. Her pressed lips and her demeanor express melancholy ; the cool, blue-ground room colors reinforce this impression. Allegedly, the model is a poor woman who Picasso met on a Paris street. Picasso was very touched by her aura and offered her to pose in the studio . Your identity is unknown.
Provenance
The artist first sold the painting in 1905 to Michael Stein - Gertrude Stein's older brother - and Sarah Stein in Paris, and then the gallery owner Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler bought it . After stops at Paul Guillaume and Valentine Dudensing, it was acquired by New York-based collector Robert H. Tannehill in 1934, who bequeathed it to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1970.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detroit Institute of Art: Melancholy Woman, 1902 . Accessed August 15, 2017