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Les Femmes d'Alger (English: Women of Algiers) is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The series, created in 1954–1955, was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's 1834 painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement).
- Oil on Canvas
The Women of Algiers, 1955 by Pablo Picasso. In this work, Picasso has distilled all of these ingredients into one large-scale painting of great quality: a study not only of the Arabesque, but also a serious enquiry into the nature of colour, line and composition.
- The Original Version
- The Initial Versions
- The Later Versions
- The Final Version
Picasso studied Delacroix‘s Women of Algiers (1834 and 1849) at the Louvre. Françoise Gilot, a painter and partner of Picasso, wrote in 1964 that Picasso would go to the museum once a month to look at the painting. When Gilot asked him how he felt about Delacroix, he replied: “That bastard. He’s really good.” He produced many sketches in which he f...
The versions are named with letters of the alphabet and the version above, H, is very similar to his first one, A, both in terms of the color palette and the composition. As you can see, Picasso took the liberty of moving the lying girl to the center and enlarging her. If you look at her pose, you can find a reference to Matisse’s controversial Blu...
As he progressed with the variations, Picasso made each of them different. Some of them are more abstract, others carry more figurative elements. Here we can see how dark colors dominate the picture and the women’s bodies almost fuse with the geometrical background. Do you see how dynamic the figure of the servant is? She’s even holding a teapot! I...
The final work in the entire cycle is a complete spectacle of color and form. We can see Cubist fractured forms, flat planes, and a distorted sense of depth. The bright and strong flat color patches are in turn a clear reference to Matisse’s colorful cut-outs. In 1997 it was sold at Christie’sfor $31,902,500…
21 de mai. de 2021 · Inspired by Eugène Delacroix’s famous depictions of the Women of Algiers (1834 and 1849), which he had studied at the Louvre, Picasso took the notion of painterly variation to utterly new dimensions: over three months in the winter of 1954–55, he produced 15 oil paintings along with more than 100 sketches and prints, in which he ...
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- May 21, 2021
Algerian women Picasso started his Les Femmes d'Alger ("Women of Algiers") series inspired by the art of Delacroix, immediately after the death of Henri Matisse, his friend and creative competitor. He kept on working on this specific dedication for two months.
As noted by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin for the exhibition of Picasso & Les Femmes d'Alger (21.05.2021 to 29.08.2021), this series of 15 works, and the 100 sketches and etchings he made previously, are inspired by the work Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement by the painter Eugène Delacroix.
This remarkable re-creation of the Women of Algiers, an iconic harem scene by the French Romanticist Eugène Delacroix, is one of fifteen paintings and over a hundred works on paper of this subject that Picasso made in a concentrated burst of activity in late 1954 and early 1955.
