Picasso sculptures of Marie-Thérèse Walter

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Picasso sculptures of Marie-Thérèse Walter are a group of intimate, stylized sculptural portraits created in the early 1930s that depict Pablo Picasso’s muse and lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, reflecting a pivotal, sensuous phase in his artistic evolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic motif
series of sculptures
artisticPeriod Picasso’s Marie-Thérèse period NERFINISHED
characteristic emphasis on curves
erotic undertones
fusion of profile and frontal views
simplified facial features
voluminous forms
countryOfOrigin France
creator Pablo Picasso NERFINISHED
depicts Marie-Thérèse Walter NERFINISHED
exhibitedAt Museum of Modern Art, New York NERFINISHED
Musée Picasso, Paris NERFINISHED
Tate Modern, London NERFINISHED
genre portrait sculpture
hasPart Bust of a Woman (Boisgeloup series) NERFINISHED
Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) NERFINISHED
Head of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) NERFINISHED
Reclining Woman (sculptural variants of Marie-Thérèse) NERFINISHED
Woman’s Head (Fernand Léger Museum cast of Marie-Thérèse head) NERFINISHED
inception circa 1931
influencedBy Picasso’s move to Boisgeloup studio
Picasso’s relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter
locationOfCreation Boisgeloup NERFINISHED
Paris NERFINISHED
mainSubject Picasso’s lover
Picasso’s muse
materialUsed bronze
clay
plaster
wood
movement Cubism
Surrealism
partOf Picasso’s Marie-Thérèse cycle NERFINISHED
Picasso’s sculptural oeuvre
relatedWorkSeries Picasso drawings of Marie-Thérèse Walter NERFINISHED
Picasso paintings of Marie-Thérèse Walter NERFINISHED
significantEvent coincided with a surge in Picasso’s sculptural production
marked a pivotal phase in Picasso’s artistic evolution
startTime early 1930s
style biomorphic
intimate
sensuous
stylized
theme desire
idealized female form
intimacy
metamorphosis of the body

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Nude, Green Leaves and Bust partOfSeries Picasso sculptures of Marie-Thérèse Walter
this entity surface form: Picasso’s Marie-Thérèse paintings
Bust of a Woman (1931) partOfSeries Picasso sculptures of Marie-Thérèse Walter