pablo picasso woman and pears fernande 1909

navigate by keyword : museum modern art york one portraits picasso painted companion fernande olivier summer 1909 period couple spent 39aph39 native spain pears background modeled round radically reconfigured oliviers head bust fragmenting geometrical segments fracturing solid volumes offered alternative traditional illusionistic perspectival approach depicting three dimensional space two surface suggests direction process development cubism slices carved figures neck diamond recesses eyes replicated sculpture womans created fall year

Pablo Picasso - Woman and pears Royalty Free Stock Photo

Pablo Picasso - Woman and pears. Fernande 1909 Royalty Free Stock Photo

Woman with Pears,1909 by Pablo Picasso Royalty Free Stock Photo

Pablo Picasso - Woman and pears. Fernande 1909

From Museum of Modern Art, New York:This is one of several portraits Picasso painted of his companion, Fernande Olivier, during the summer of 1909, a period that the couple spent in Picasso's native Spain. While the pears in the background are modeled in the round, Picasso radically reconfigured Oliviers head and bust, fragmenting them into geometrical segments. This fracturing of solid volumes offered an alternative to the traditional illusionistic and perspectival approach to depicting threeâdimensional space on a twoâdimensional surface and suggests the direction Picasso's process would take in the development of Cubism. The slices carved into the figures neck and the diamond recesses of her eyes are replicated in the sculpture Womans Head (Fernande), which Picasso created in the fall of that year.