Woman with Loaves

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Woman with Loaves

1906

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

Together with his companion Fernande Olivier, Picasso spent the summer of 1906 in Gósol, a village located in an isolated area in the Pyrenees mountains of northeastern Spain. Olivier would later remember it as a place where they had a chance to live in pure simplicity.In this portrayal of Olivier as a Gósol village woman, Picasso invokes a feeling of timelessness through his choice of subject and through his style, which looks back to a historically remote artistic source. Olivier’s rigidity and stance relate to a sculpture of the Virgin Mary made in Gósol in the 1100s.

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Object Details

Title:

Woman with Loaves

Date:

1906

Artist:

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

39 3/16 × 27 1/2 inches (99.5 × 69.9 cm) Framed: 48 3/4 × 36 7/8 × 3 7/8 inches (123.8 × 93.6 × 9.8 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles E. Ingersoll, 1931

Accession Number:

1931-7-1

Geography:

Made in France, Europe

Provenance

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