Picasso, Pablo, Woman in a Red Dress, 1946

1946

Oil on panel

99.8 x 80.3 cm

Dated on reverse June 20, 46. Unsigned

Catalog raisonné : Zervos XIV n°146

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In Femme à robe rouge, probably by Françoise Gilot, Picasso reverts to a language of simple geometrical forms, underlined by a black brush line. The marked verticality of the figure’s long neck, redoubled by the canvas’s format, is counterbalanced by the horizontality of the head, dominating the whole, and the shoulders.