Sleeping Muse

A woman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York studies Pablo Picasso’s painting Woman Asleep at a Table.  Picasso moved his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter and their one-year-old daughter, Maya, to a country house outside Paris in autumn 1936. Although he frequently depicted Marie-Thérèse asleep, this work may also reflect the sweet exhaustion of the new mother, as well as the perplexity of the fifty-five-year-old father: when Picasso painted this canvas, he had already met Dora Maar, his new lover.

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Oil on Hardboard

12 x 12 Inches

2024

Available for purchase.