1901, Pablo Picasso, The Mother -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the special exhibition label: Paying homage to Daumier’s The Laundress, Picasso enlarges the figures of the mother and child in the older artist’s painting to fill the foreground of his brightly coloured picture. He exaggerates the laundress’s gesture by elongating the mother’s thumb and index finger, outlining the digits with thick black and Prussian blue lines. Picasso further updates Daumier’s figure by situating her on an empty road in the outskirts of Paris and giving her a swaddled infant in place of the bundle of laundry. He also clothes her and her child in patterned garments similar to those found in Vuillard’s 1899 lithograph.
1901, Pablo Picasso, The Mother -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the special exhibition label: Paying homage to Daumier’s The Laundress, Picasso enlarges the figures of the mother and child in the older artist’s painting to fill the foreground of his brightly coloured picture. He exaggerates the laundress’s gesture by elongating the mother’s thumb and index finger, outlining the digits with thick black and Prussian blue lines. Picasso further updates Daumier’s figure by situating her on an empty road in the outskirts of Paris and giving her a swaddled infant in place of the bundle of laundry. He also clothes her and her child in patterned garments similar to those found in Vuillard’s 1899 lithograph.