Pablo Picasso Portrait of Sylvette David 21 Signed by Sylvette David
Portrait of Sylvette David 21 1954 Signed by Sylvette David. Limited Edition Pablo Picasso Estate Giclee Print in a excellent quality bronze finish frame. Ready to hang.
56.5cm x 45cm x 2cm
The present work belongs to a stunning group of portraits of Sylvette David, whom Picasso first met in the spring of 1953.
Sylvette was a daughter of a Parisian art dealer and an English born artist mother, Sylvette came to Vallauris in the south of France to visit her fiancé, a maker of avant-garde metal chairs, who worked across the road from Picasso’s home, La Galloise.
One of the only female models of Picasso with whom he had no romantic relationship. Pierre Daix wrote “Picasso glowed with enthusiasm and spoke of her with such warmth that I suspected he had fallen in love. The challenge posed by Sylvette was in fact the challenge of a new type of woman. At this point he plunged into one of his most extraordinary campaigns of possession, not through working and reworking an oil painting but with a dazzling series of forty paintings and drawings. Sylvette obdurate; closed; ironic; absent. How to capture the secret of her youth? The secret of painting?”
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