Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant) / Pablo Picasso
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- Accession Number
- 1994/1.67
- Title
- Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant)
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Artist Nationality
- Spanish
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881 - 1973
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- March 28, 1934
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Haute-Normandie (region)
- Eure (department)
- Boisgeloup (city)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Haute-Normandie (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Eure (department)
- Creation Place 5
- Boisgeloup (city)
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation
- Style/Group/Movement
- Cubist
- Inscription
- Signed lower right: Picasso/28 Mars (illegible) XXXIV
- Dimensions
- 110.17 cm x 89.38 cm x 7.62 cm (43 3/8 in. x 35 3/16 in. x 3 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- figure painting
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- Two girls, depicted in bold geometric shapes and block colors, reading a book together. The figure seated at viewer's right, slightly taller, is green and wearing yellow. The figure at viewer's left has a face of blue and white and is clothed in red resting her clasped hands upon an open book.
- Subject Matter
- Two girls in an embrace read a book together. The figure at the viewer's left is Picasso's mistress at the time, Marie-Thérèse Walter. The other figure is thought to be either Olga Koklova, his wife, or Marie-Thérèse's sister. The scene suggests intimacy, yet the distored shapes and vibrant colors evoke a separateness, distance, and give the piece a melancholic feel.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 925 x 1171
- File Size
- 118 KB
- Record
- 1994/1.67
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