The painting "Woman in the Window (Marie-Therese)" offered for auction of Impressionist and Modern Sotheby's November 5 with an estimate of 15-20 million dollars

Pablo Picasso Woman in the Window (Marie-Therese)

1936 Source: Press Release Sotheby's

November 5, 2012 in New York at the auction of Impressionist and Modern Sotheby's will work of Pablo Picasso's "Woman in the Window (Marie-Therese)", previously estimated at 15-20 million.

«Marie-Therese inspired Picasso to some of his best works. His legendary reflections of love, dreams and passion are among the greatest achievements of modernism. It is no coincidence that three of the ten most expensive works of the artist are in this series. More ... 30 years belonged to prominent private collection, of which she is auctioned "- said the upcoming sale Simon Shaw, Head of Impressionist and Modern Sotheby's in New York.

Artist depicted his mistress Marie-Therese Walter sitting at the window in the spring of 1936, when they, along with their young daughter Maya lived in a villa in Juan-les-Pins (France). It was a difficult period in relations between the artist and his blond muse: the extramarital affair Picasso discovered his wife, Olga Khokhlova, she left her husband, taking their son, was inspired by Picasso's scandalous divorce cold to Marie-Therese. Attraction to his mother Maya began to fade, and from the fact that, in the artist's life appeared Dora Maar, the photographer, working in the style of surrealism, which eventually eclipsed by Marie-Therese. Perhaps that is why usually peaceful image of Marie-Thérèse in this work has changed more shrill and sharp, she looks tense and vulnerable - you can imagine how hard it is at the time she had.

artist never left with the work "Woman in the Window" until his death in 1973. Painting was inherited by his granddaughter, Marina, daughter of Paolo - son of Picasso and Olga Khokhlova. Portrait became an ornament of a large exhibition "Picasso and portraiture", held in 1996 at the MoMA.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

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