Picasso the Dream
Updated: Jan 20, 2021
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.