Girl before a Mirror (French: Jeune fille devant un miroir) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created in 1932. The painting is a portrait of Picasso's mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who is depicted standing in front of a mirror looking at her reflection.

Girl Before Mirror was painted in March 1932. It was produced in the style Picasso was using at the time and evoked an image of Vanity such as had been utilized in art in earlier eras, though Picasso shifts the emphasis and creates a very different view of the image.

Its primary subject is the time-honored artistic theme of a woman before her mirror, reinvented in strikingly modern terms. The girl’s smoothly painted profile, in a delicately blushing pink-lavender, abuts a heavily built-up and garishly colored frontal view in yellow and red.

Feb 7, 2024 · Pablo Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror stands as a captivating exploration of identity, reflection, and transformation. Through its intricate symbolism and masterful composition, the painting invites viewers to contemplate the complexities of self …

honored artistic theme of a woman before her mirror in radically modern terms, tinged by the mortal associations of traditional Vanity images and by powerful psychic overtones.

The powerful imagination of Pablo Picasso along with his abilities to picture so many emotions through few objects and a ‘single’ individual makes the Girl Before a Mirror a masterpiece – not only for Cubism, but for the entire painting Universe.

Dec 13, 2012 · The painting, one of the most extraordinary works by Pablo Picasso in the Museum’s collection, is an unusual and captivating take on the traditional artistic theme of a woman looking into a mirror.

Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror (1932) This 1932 painting by Picasso was inspired by Edouard Manet's Before the Mirror which we have already shown in a separate entry is really an image of a painter before his easel.

Girl Before a Mirror by Pablo Picasso is an iconic and thought-provoking masterpiece that captures the essence of the artist's exploration of the human condition. The painting, created in 1932 during Picasso's Cubist period, depicts a young girl standing before a mirror.

Jan 14, 2015 · In The Girl Before a Mirror, one is literally looking at two images, the observer (left) and the reflection (right). The observer owns (holds) the inner image as her own, so in a way the portrait is still one person: dark and light, inner and outer, …