1938, Pablo Picasso, Femme à la résille [Woman in a Hairnet] -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Always cannibalising different styles, Pablo Picasso combines at least three modernist idioms in this composite portrait that evokes aspects of Dora Maar (1907-1997). Transforming the sitter's head into a Surrealist biomorph, Picasso flouts anatomical accuracy by rendering her face in profile with two red nostrils and two visible eyes, one looking sideways above her left cheekbone, the other pointing at us above her wide nose. Fragmenting the figure's hairnet into Synthetic Cubist facets, he offers two simultaneous views of her accessory: one diagonally from above, showing its green cross-hatching, and the other from the front, revealing a pattern of blue lozenges. Picasso additionally adopts the high-keyed palette of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), but he uses his rival's colours arbitrarily, as seen in the sitter's peculiar blue lips.
1938, Pablo Picasso, Femme à la résille [Woman in a Hairnet] -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Always cannibalising different styles, Pablo Picasso combines at least three modernist idioms in this composite portrait that evokes aspects of Dora Maar (1907-1997). Transforming the sitter's head into a Surrealist biomorph, Picasso flouts anatomical accuracy by rendering her face in profile with two red nostrils and two visible eyes, one looking sideways above her left cheekbone, the other pointing at us above her wide nose. Fragmenting the figure's hairnet into Synthetic Cubist facets, he offers two simultaneous views of her accessory: one diagonally from above, showing its green cross-hatching, and the other from the front, revealing a pattern of blue lozenges. Picasso additionally adopts the high-keyed palette of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), but he uses his rival's colours arbitrarily, as seen in the sitter's peculiar blue lips.