Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom
Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom is a 1937 painting by Pablo Picasso. It hangs in the main reception area of the private member's club Annabel's in Berkeley Square in London's Mayfair district.[1]
The painting depicts Picasso's lover Marie-Thérèse Walter. It was one of a series of Thérèse Walter painted by Picasso in December 1937.[2] A portrait of Thérèse Walter painted the previous day to the Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom sold in 2013 for £7.5 million at Christie's auction house in New York.[2] Picasso's daughter by Thérèse Walter, Maya Ruiz-Picasso, feels that Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom depicts both her mother and the woman that Picasso left her for, Dora Maar.[3] Ruiz-Picasso said that "My father...never tired of drawing [my mother], painting her, sculpting her, engraving her. But in this painting, it's a combination of my mother and Dora Maar. It's my mother's hair and eyes, but the nose and tones recall Dora Maar, who entered his life in 1936, shortly after I was born".[3]
It was bought by the British businessman
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References
- ^ OCLC 1282646406.
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- ^ "Corrections and clarifications". The Times. No. 72451. 6 February 2018. p. 28. Retrieved 29 April 2022.