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Les Femmes d'Alger (English: Women of Algiers) is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The series, created in 1954–1955, was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's 1834 painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement).
- 114 cm × 146.4 cm (45 in × 57.6 in)
- 1955
- Oil on canvas
- Pablo Picasso
The Women of Algiers, 1955 by Pablo Picasso. In this work, Picasso has distilled all of these ingredients into one large-scale painting of great quality: a study not only of the Arabesque, but also a serious enquiry into the nature of colour, line and composition.
- The Original Version
- The Initial Versions
- The Later Versions
- The Final Version
Picasso studied Delacroix‘s Women of Algiers (1834 and 1849) at the Louvre. Françoise Gilot, a painter and partner of Picasso, wrote in 1964 that Picasso would go to the museum once a month to look at the painting. When Gilot asked him how he felt about Delacroix, he replied: “That bastard. He’s really good.” He produced many sketches in which he f...
The versions are named with letters of the alphabet and the version above, H, is very similar to his first one, A, both in terms of the color palette and the composition. As you can see, Picasso took the liberty of moving the lying girl to the center and enlarging her. If you look at her pose, you can find a reference to Matisse’s controversial Blu...
As he progressed with the variations, Picasso made each of them different. Some of them are more abstract, others carry more figurative elements. Here we can see how dark colors dominate the picture and the women’s bodies almost fuse with the geometrical background. Do you see how dynamic the figure of the servant is? She’s even holding a teapot! I...
The final work in the entire cycle is a complete spectacle of color and form. We can see Cubist fractured forms, flat planes, and a distorted sense of depth. The bright and strong flat color patches are in turn a clear reference to Matisse’s colorful cut-outs. In 1997 it was sold at Christie’sfor $31,902,500…
Six weeks later, on December 13, Pablo Picasso began a series of fifteen paintings, two lithographs, and a vast number of drawings inspired by Eugène Delacroix’s two versions of his classic nineteenth-century Orientalist painting, Les Femmes d’Alger dans leur Appartement (The Women of Algiers) [Fig. 1].
- Amanda H Beresford
- 2015
21 de may. de 2021 · Museum Berggruen. Pablo Picasso’s late work begins in 1954 with Les Femmes d’Alger, one of his most important and extraordinary series of works. Long scattered all around the world, Museum Bergruen will be showing the majority of these oil paintings in what will be the first such show in Germany for 65 years.
- August 29, 2021
- May 21, 2021
Obra de la semana. Pablo Picasso, Les femmes d'Alger (Version 'O’), 1955. Óleo sobre lienzo, 114 × 146.4 cm. Colección Privada. © Sucesión Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023. Les Femmes d'Alger are a series of works, classified from A to O, which were produced by Pablo Picasso between 1954 and 1955.
17 de ago. de 2021 · Eugene Delacroix. Henri Matisse. Pablo Picasso. One canvas in Picasso's celebrated series after Delacroix depicts a lone woman in grisaille who could be read as the painter's dying wife.
