Seated woman in a chemise picasso biography

Painting by Pablo Picasso

Girl in a Chemise (French: Jeune femme en chemise) is an oil-on-canvas painting created c.

by Pablo Picasso. It is a portrait of a girl, whom experts believe to be Madeleine, Picasso's girlfriend during this period. Stylistically, the painting belongs to Picasso's Rose Period, although it is predominantly blue in tone.

Woman seated in an armchair

The painting is particularly remarkable for the presence of an earlier portrait of a young boy hidden beneath the surface, which Picasso transformed into the girl by making some subtle changes. The portrait has been housed in the collection of the Tate since

Background

Picasso painted Girl in a Chemise sometime around , at a point when his artwork was going through a transitional phase.

By , he had settled in Paris following an ambiti