Thursday, January 15, 2026

 Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)
 

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (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. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. His career spanned more than 76 years, from his late teens to his death in 1973. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Girl before a Mirror 
1932
Oil on canvas
162 × 130 cm 
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78311

<i>The painting is a portrait of Picasso's mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who is depicted standing in front of a mirror looking at her reflection. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1938.</I>

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