Diana Widmaier Picasso, the granddaughter of Pablo Picasso, sits down with Simon Shaw, Replica Shoes ’s NY Vice Chairman in Global Replica Handbags s to discuss Picasso’s history and significance in the world today.
This discussion took place during Replica Shoes ’s The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined Evening Auction on 8 November 2023 where Pablo Picasso’s Femme à la montre was sold.
Executed in 1932 at the pinnacle of Picasso’s impassioned affair, Femme à la montre exists as one of the most resolved and complex depictions from this highly charged year. The rapturous period from which Femme à la montre originates has been described by the artist’s biographer John Richardson as Picasso’s annus mirabilis or ‘year of wonders.’ In 1932, Picasso worked at a feverish pace, ceaselessly inspired by his new muse’s presence and the longing felt in her absence. Utterly consumed by his amour fou – the Surrealist notion of an obsessional, vortex-like desire – each work from this period reads like an entry in a diary, documenting the pair’s evolving relationship. Among the artist’s 1932 works, it is the monumental canvases like Femme à la montre, which unapologetically announce Marie-Thérèse’s presence, that are most widely acclaimed for their singular importance in Picasso's oeuvre.
