© Sucesión Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
Pablo Picasso dealt with a wide range of themes during his artistic career, and the figure of the woman was of particular importance to the painter. In this sense, the theme of the painter and the model returns in the 1960s, in a very intense way.
This is reflected in the exhibition at Fundación MAPFRE (2014), entitled Picasso in the studio. The work The Painter and the Model (1963), "...in which all the variations on this theme are produced, always containing its fundamental elements: the palette, the model, a curtain that frames the space, and, of course, the painter, who is Picasso himself. Throughout his career, the artist has identified himself with many of the figures he depicts in his works. The sculptor of the Vollard Suite, the minotaur, the jester... The voyeur is now an old painter and the model has become a "monster". Time has done its work and the gaze has become a testimony of that time". (Fundación MAPFRE, 2014).
Pablo Picasso was 83 years old when he painted the three paintings in the series The Painter and the Model (1963) (...). In his long career he has deployed all pictorial resources, giving rise, with his successive languages, to key moments in the history of painting. In this last period, Picasso strongly revisits the theme of The Painter and the Model, represented from his earliest classicist works, and throughout his production in different versions and styles (Museo Reina Sofía, 2023).
Referencias:
- Picasso, Pablo (1963). The Painter and the Model. Museo Reina Sofía. Available at: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/obra/pintor-modelo-1
- MAPFRE Foundation (2014). Exhibition: Picasso in the studio. Available at: https://www.fundacionmapfre.org/media/arte-cultura/exposiciones/historico-exposiciones/2014/dossier-prensa-picasso-taller-es.pdf