Poster / Picasso / Three Musicians / 36 x 28 cm Pinguin "Portrait of Émilie Marguerite Walter

"Portrait of Émilie Marguerite Walter (nicknamed 'Mémé')"

Works from the Picasso Art Museum in Münster and the Kontaxopoulos Collection

Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse met in the years 1895-1898 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in Gustave Moreau's class and remained friends throughout their lives

published by Dosde

Isa Genzken

Poster / Picasso / Three Musicians / 36 x 28 cm Pinguin "Portrait of Émilie Marguerite WalterThis famous work, now on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art, is part of a series he painted with his young family in Fontaineblueau in the summer of 1921. It marks a return to highly synthetic Cubism and to his enduring Commedia dellArte imagination that he had begun in Paris in the early days. Through his wife and his work as a set and costume designer for Diaghilev, his connection to the sophisticated world of ballet is obvious. Three