10 Euros Picasso's "Mujer en Azul"

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Colour reproduction of the work entitled "Woman in Blue", made by Pablo Picasso in 1901, which is kept in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid.

Script: Latin

Lettering: MUJER EN AZUL

Translation: Woman in Blue

Designer: Pablo Picasso

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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.

Between January and May 1901, after a first stay in Paris the previous year, Picasso settled in Madrid. There he coincides with the writers and artists of the generation of '98, with whom he collaborates in the magazine Arte Joven of which he himself was artistic director. During those months, in addition to the illustrations for the magazine, the artist made a series of portraits of courtesans with multiple references ranging from modernism - which he had known in Barcelona - to Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec or the brushwork of El Greco and even Velázquez, from whom he borrows the composition of his portrait of Mariana of Austria.

Picasso sent Woman in Blue to the General Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid that year, where she went unnoticed. Before the exhibition ended he had already left Madrid to prepare for his first individual show in Paris. The work would be forgotten and would not be rescued until decades later, when it became part of the then National Museum of Modern Art.

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