Artist: PABLO PICASSO, 1881-1973

Title: Figure au Corsage Rayé (Figure with Striped Bodice),

April 1949 Original Lithograph in color on Arches wove paper

Size: 25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in 

Framing: Custom made Spanish frame. 

Signature: Signed in pencil lower right

Edition: 2/50 (lower left)

Reference: "Mourlot 179; Bloch 604"

Condition: pristine

PRIVATE COLLECTION
Price Upon Request

Provenance: *Private Collection Beverly Hills, *Portraits Exhibition Galerie Michael May 2015 with guest lecturer Emmanuel Bennador 

Created during the decade of Picasso’s relationship with Françoise Gilot, Figure au corsage rayé is arguably a portrait of Gilot. In addition to being Picasso’s model and muse, Françoise was his intellectual equal. He wanted her to stay up late at night with him, talking and arguing about his work. Her independence, directness, and insights fascinated and annoyed him, and nourished his insatiable appetite for life.

Françoise described the differences in Picasso’s use of color for each of the women in his life: “For me, it was blue and green; for Marie-Thérèse Walter it was lavender, lemon yellow, and pale green. Black was usually associated with Dora Maar, but he played more with form than with color for her. Dora Maar had both eyes on the same side—with me they are on each side of my nose, thank God... it’s because I have a very regular face and usually I am in control of my emotions.”

—Françoise Gilot, Vogue, 2012