Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - MÁRTON OROSZ: Picasso in Love: Picasso: Woman Reading

Madeleine watercolour but also by an etching from 1905. Marie-Thérèse Walter provided the only escape for Picasso from the dullness and gloominess of everyday life. The theme of the girl sitting in an armchair and meditating over her reading was shown by the four illustrations to Balzac's short story, the Unknown Masterpiece, painted by Suite Vollard. On the etchings we can see Picasso's self-portrait and disguised in the Minotaurus legend his secret lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter. At almost the same time, in 1932, the protagonist of the exhibition, the painting entitled Woman Reading, depicting his love in an armchair with a book in her hand, was made. Another lover of Picasso, the photographer Dora Maar, a hysterical, crying woman, became the symbol of war and suffering. (The acquatint Woman in an Armchair I, borrowed from Paris, represented this woman, who also appears in Picasso's famous Guernica) In 1943 Picasso came to know the young painter Françoise Gilot. A double portrait showing their children, Claude and Paloma, was on display at the exhibition, but their figures were also at the focus of the lithograph Toys and Reading. The series of the representations of Picasso's mistresses was concluded by prints showing the last wife of the eighty-year old painter, Jacquelin Roque, who was forty five years his junior (Jacqueline Reading, The Spanish Woman). The interior installation was designed by Zsolt Vasáros and executed by NARMER Architectural Studio. The installations presented the stages of Picasso's life in the form of a labyrinth that linked the mythology of the Minotaurus bull, decisive for Picasso's personal iconography, to his Andalusian childhood spent in the world of the corridas. 20 PABLO PICASSO. WOMAN READING. PARIS. MUSÉE PICASSO Márton Orosz