1906, Pablo Picasso, Woman with Loaves -- Philadelphia Museum of Art
From the 2022 special exhibition label: Like the Crouching Beggarwoman, this woman wears a scarf and
a shawl. Unlike the subject of the 1902 picture, she stands upright and faces frontward, contently balancing two loaves on her head. Gósol, Spain, where Picasso painted this work, operated as a matriarchy when he and Fernande Olivier visited in 1906. Women managed the farms and provided for families, while men came and went. Placing this dignified local woman against a ground of ochres and pink forms reminiscent of prehistoric cave paintings, Picasso proudly roots himself and his Rose Period works in rural Spain.
1906, Pablo Picasso, Woman with Loaves -- Philadelphia Museum of Art
From the 2022 special exhibition label: Like the Crouching Beggarwoman, this woman wears a scarf and
a shawl. Unlike the subject of the 1902 picture, she stands upright and faces frontward, contently balancing two loaves on her head. Gósol, Spain, where Picasso painted this work, operated as a matriarchy when he and Fernande Olivier visited in 1906. Women managed the farms and provided for families, while men came and went. Placing this dignified local woman against a ground of ochres and pink forms reminiscent of prehistoric cave paintings, Picasso proudly roots himself and his Rose Period works in rural Spain.