Picasso - Femme aux Bras Croisés, Woman
with Folded Arms (Mädchenbildnis)
1901-02 oil on canvas, 81 × 58 cm
76 (55) Mio $, privat,
Gertrude Stein originally bought the painting from
Picasso.
La femme était une pensionnaire de l'hôpital-
prison Saint-Lazare à Paris; In her book Pablo
Picasso, Antonina Vallentin devotes a great deal
of time to writing about the haunting qualities
of this painting. She describes her views of the
subject as an inmate, who recently attempted
suicide and now carries the blank but menacing
stare of those unfortunates who found
themselves at Saint-Lazare during the early
1900s
