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The male figure clearly shows the portrait of Picasso's friend, the painter Carlos Casagemas, who had committed suicide not long before Picasso painted La Vie. X-ray photographs show that Picasso first executed a self-portrait that he later replaced by the portrait of his friend. [13] This fact and the circumstance that the confrontation of the ...
From 1901 to 1903, he painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie, painted in 1903 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [7] The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast (1904) which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare ...
The painting was originally purchased directly from Picasso in 1908 by the Parisian businessman André Level for the La Peau de l'Ours Collection. Six years later, it was sold at Hôtel Drouot and acquired by the Thannhauser Galleries in Munich. Sometime between November 1914 and June 1915, the canvas was bought by Hertha Koenig, and then to ...
Pablo Ruiz Picasso [a] [b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
La vie is French for "the life", such as found in the phrase "c'est la vie". It may refer to: La Vie, a painting by Pablo Picasso; La Vie (formerly La Vie catholique), a Roman Catholic weekly published in France; La Vie, the annual student yearbook published by Pennsylvania State University; LaVie (computer), a laptop computer manufactured by ...
Woman Ironing (French: La repasseuse) [1] is a 1904 oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was completed during the artist's Blue Period (1901—1904). This evocative image, painted in neutral tones of blue and gray, depicts an emaciated woman with hollowed eyes, sunken cheeks, and bent form, as she presses down on an iron with all her will.
Dove (French: La Colombe) is a 1949 lithograph on paper created by Pablo Picasso in 1949 in an edition of 50+5. The lithograph displays a white dove on a black background, which is widely considered to be a symbol of peace .
Three Musicians, also known as Musicians with Masks or Musicians in Masks, is a large oil painting created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He painted two versions of Three Musicians . Both versions were completed in the summer of 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France , in the garage of a villa that Picasso was using as his studio.