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To browse Academia. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. Picasso's Female Anatomies. Emily Braun. With Les demoiselles, Picasso unleashed his sexual drive as the for its lack of stylistic unity, it nonetheless had the power to mesmerize. Both works evident to many viewers, even today. Picasso selected it for the Leonard A. Lauder Collection cat.
Girl in a Chemise marks the end of Picasso's Blue Period. The light blue loses its icy frigidity as female beauty and lust return as suitable subject matter.
This underscores the absence of real sexual passion in previous works, whose emotional tones are achieved instead by the social comment implicit in the characters' destitute state. This face is probably of new mistress, Madeleine, featured in a series of erotic drawings, as here, with the light deliberately accented on the exposed breast. The new, shimmering blue-green provides a striking contrast with the ghostly transparency of the chemise, whose folds create notional movement. In the summer of , Madeleine became pregnant by Picasso, but he pressurised her into having an abortion.
In , when this painting resurfaced, he joked, 'Can you imagine me having a son 64 years old? The dating of the picture is confused. The rigid colouring may place it in late , as his palette did not warm up until early Contact Us Terms of Use Links.
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