La lettrice di picasso biography
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Juana Romani (Italian painter) - La Lettrice (The Reader), s.d.!
La Lecture
painting by Pablo Picasso
| La Lecture | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Pablo Picasso |
| Year | |
| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | &#;cm ×&#;51&#;cm (&#;in ×&#;20&#;in) |
| Location | Private collection |
La Lecture (or Reading[1]) is a painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in January The oil painting depicts Picasso's mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, asleep with a book upon her lap.
The painting led to the breakup of Picasso's marriage to Olga Khokhlova after she saw it at a retrospective exhibition and realised that the facial features were not her own. The painting went to auction in and in , where it failed to sell.
He entitled it La Liseuse (the reader), and evidently intended it as a genre piece, although he also identified the figure as his niece wearing Lyonnaise.In January , it was announced that La Lecture would be going to auction on 8 February. The painting, which had not been seen in Europe since the exhibition, was then displayed at Sotheby's in Paris.
Background
Picasso met Marie-Thérèse Walter in as she exited the Paris Metro and they later began a relations