Art and Culture: Artist Picasso the Dream

Art and Culture: Artist Picasso the Dream. Oil painting. cubism.

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Title: le Reve / The Dream (1932)

Medium: Oil paint

Period: Cubism

Subject: Marie-Thérèse Walter

Medium: Oil paint

Period: Cubism

Subject: Marie-Thérèse Walter

🗨 Le Rêve is a 1932 oil painting by Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old, portraying his 22-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter.

🗨 It is said to have been painted in one afternoon, on 24 January 1932

🗨 It belongs to Picasso's period of distorted depictions, with its oversimplified outlines and contrasted colors resembling early cubism.