Christie's Head of Impressionist & Modern Art Conor Jordan discusses Pablo Picasso's Les femmes d'Alger, version L, one of the largest works within the artist’s groundbreaking series of 15 paintings created in 1955 in homage to the masterpiece of the same name by the 19th century master Eugène Delacroix. For Version L, Picasso zeroed in on the hookah-smoking woman at the far right in Delacroix’s original scene and recasts her in cubist style, with an economy of line and a near monochromatic color palette. (RT: 2:29)
20 April 2011Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
4 May 2011 New York, Rockefeller Plaza.
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