Pablo Picasso's

Our Impressionist & Modern Art auction in New York on 13 May 2021 is led by a vivid and stunning 1937 portrait by Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret mauve. Created in a highly desirable period of the artist’s career, this work encapsulates the defining iconography of Picasso’s “golden muse.” After decades within a distinguished American collection, the painting is revealed to the international market as a rare opportunity for today’s most discerning collectors.

Painted nearly ten years after their love affair began, the joyous portrait is a vivid realization of Marie-Thérèse as lover, model, and mother in the life of Picasso. Dressed in a fashionable fur collar, a purple béret sits atop her bright yellow tresses; her creamy lavender complexion contrasts against her white alabaster neck; her distinctive Grecian nose and firmly contoured chin highlight her iconic sculptural profile. Femme au béret mauve radiates with a lunar-like quality, a testament to Picasso’s never-ending fascination with his "golden muse."

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