10 Euros Picasso's "Jacqueline sentada"

Reverse

Colour reproduction of the work entitled "Jacqueline seated", made by Pablo Picasso in 1954, which is kept in the Picasso Museum Málaga.

Script: Latin

Lettering: JACQUELINE SENTADA

Translation: Jacqueline seated

Designer: Pablo Picasso

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Plain

Comment

On the occasion of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the “Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre FNMT” dedicates a collection of commemorative coins to the Spanish painter, the inimitable creator of the various currents that revolutionized the plastic arts of the 20th century.

Picasso met his future wife Jacqueline Roque Hutin in 1952, in the Madoura pottery shop, where she was employed, and began photographing her in 1954. In the autumn of that year, to escape the small-town atmosphere of Vallauris, they moved to his Parisian studio on the rue des Grands Augustins. In the first half of October, Picasso began a series of joyful portraits of his new muse, including this seated Jacqueline. The placement of Jacqueline's figure in front of three stripes of color—red for the ground, yellow for the space behind, and blue for the sky—suggests an outdoor setting under the Mediterranean sun, although the painting was painted in Paris. At the same time, Picasso undoubtedly remembered his friend Matisse, already close to death, who used to place the female figures in his paintings on large patches of flat color.

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