Pablo Picasso, Femme Accroupie
In early autumn, 1954, Pablo Picasso was living in the south of France with Jacqueline Roque, his lover, whom he had met in 1952. Painted on 8 October 1954, Femme Accroupie is one of three large-easel-format canvases that Picasso executed in a rapid burst of activity on that day. The October paintings proudly celebrate his new mistress, cementing her newly established pride of place in the artist’s life and work.
In this work, as in each of the three October paintings, Jacqueline crouches on the floor, clasping her knees. Light streams in from an open window.
Picasso uses great impasto to build up the areas surrounding Jacqueline’s eyes, to accentuate her cheekbones playing this off the colours and textures in the background.
Available as a fine art print and as a stretched canvas panel (heavy fine art canvas stretched over 1.5 inch deep edge solid wood frame).
All prints are made using archival art stocks and UV pigment inks to give up to 200 years life. Prints are sold unframed and unmounted.
