Woman with Blue Veil

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Woman with Blue Veil

Spain, 1923
Paintings
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 × 32 in. (100.33 × 81.28 cm)
Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection (M.46.8.1)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Provenance

The artist (1881-1973). Dr. F. G. Reber, Lugano. Mrs. Averill W. Harriman (1903-1970), New York. J. K. Thannhauser (1892-1976), New York.  Mr. (1895-1950) and Mrs....
The artist (1881-1973). Dr. F. G. Reber, Lugano. Mrs. Averill W. Harriman (1903-1970), New York. J. K. Thannhauser (1892-1976), New York.  Mr. (1895-1950) and Mrs. George Gard de Sylva; gifted or sold 1946 to Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred 1961 to LACMA.
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Label

Picasso’s shift in style in this painting reflects not only his interest in the Renaissance and Neoclassical paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, but also Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, w...
Picasso’s shift in style in this painting reflects not only his interest in the Renaissance and Neoclassical paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, but also Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, whose work Picasso acquired around this time. During the 1920s, many artists in France shared a “return to order,” in which artists rejected the avant-garde tendencies of the prewar years in favor of more traditional approaches to art making. For Picasso, newly married to Russian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova, portraits of her and their first child, Paulo, reveal a familial stability, tenderness, and intimacy quite different from his Cubism of a decade earlier.

However, by the summer of 1922 their relationship was foundering, and during the following summer the family spent time in the south of France with the family of American expatriates, painter Gerald Murphy and his wife, Sara Wiborg Murphy. Picasso painted Sara on several occasions, and her features share characteristics with Woman with Blue Veil. Picasso included this painting in his first retrospective in 1932, which was exhibited in Paris and at the Zurich Kunsthaus.

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Bibliography

  • Valentiner, William Reinhold. The Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection of French Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1950.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Valentiner, William Reinhold. The Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection of French Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1950.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Muchnic, Suzanne. LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2015.
  • Magaloni, Diana and Michael Govan, eds. Picasso Rivera: Conversations Across Time. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.

  • "A Pictorial Essay on the Los Angeles County Museum." The Art Gallery 8, no.9 (1965): 7-15, 30-34.

  • Loucheim, Aline B.  "Buddy de Sylva: Gift to Hollywood."  ARTnews 45, no.7 (1946): 28-33, 53.
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