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Pablo Picasso. Jacqueline with Flowers, 1954


JACQUELINE WITH FLOWERS

Jacqueline avec des fleurs

1954

Oil on canvas

Private collection

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Jacqueline Roque  

Picasso met Jacqueline Roque at the pottery where she worked. She was 27 and he was 72. He drew doves in chalk on the walls of her house and gave her a rose each day. In 6 months she said yes and they got married in March 1961.

“Jacqueline with Flowers” (1954) is one of the first paintings signifying the beginning of a new period in the maitre’s creative work. A new muse, a new love. The artist’s biographer Antonina Valentin calls her a “modern sphinx”. There is definitely something mythic in this figure with a long neck, a catlike face and a rapier glance of her almond eyes. Jacqueline liked sitting in this position which reappears in her later portraits including those of the “Odalisques” series.

When Picasso first met Jacqueline, he was astonished at her resemblance to one of Delacroix’s “Women of Algiers”, the one holding the hookah. “Eugene Delacroix had already met you,” the artist said. Therefore, it is most likely that it was Picasso’s last muse that inspired the renowned series.



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2023
#5. Sketch, Crashbox
Man that’s beautiful
22 October
2014
#4. max, Vladivostok
Gordon, yes
08 September
#3. Gordon, Melbourne
A question for you guys... the original artwork was on the canvas (oil on canvas)?
Thanks heaps:)
05 September
2011
#2. Renee, USA, Kansas City
Pete:
I am by no means an "expert" but I am a collector. In my travels I have seen pieces range from $9,000 to $50,000 for Picasso printer`s proofs. Hope this helps.
06 October
#1. Pete, USA, Portland, OR
I am considering buying the printer`s proof of this painting from a reputable art gallery in Scottsdale AZ. Does any art "expert" out there know what would be a fair price. I have no idea if the price I`m being quoted is a market price.
25 September

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