Portrait of a Young Girl 1 by Pablo Picasso

The colorful and vibrant work of the eminent Spanish artist Picasso Pablo bears witness to an intense aesthetic research and an expressive distortion of the female face. This remarkable composition, designated by the title of “Portrait of a Young Girl 1”, is part of his period of maturity where portraits of hatted women celebrate liberated color and form. The painter proposes a geometrized and asymmetrical vision of the model, full of vitality and plastic energy. This painting stands out as a masterpiece of his modern production.

The painting shows the bust of a woman wearing a wide yellow and green straw hat striped with curved lines. Her profile face stands out with a long straight nose painted in bright red and matching lips. Her full-face eyes are arranged in a staggered manner, lending an expressive and captivating gaze to the silhouette. She wears a white garment gridded with fine lines that highlights her rounded bodily forms. In the background, an intense blue background is adorned with patterns of black branches and leaves on each side. The composition is structured by very marked black outlines.

The artist’s technical mastery is illustrated in the audacious harmony of primary colors and the strength of the line. His oil technique makes it possible to give a rich and vibrant texture to the canvas, accentuating the dynamism of the scene. This work confirms his incomparable capacity to renew figurative painting.