Buste de Femme, in one form or another was a well coveted subject for one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and co-founder of the Cubist movement. Buste de Fem is an amalgamation, a collaboration of many of those ideas which made up Picasso’s Buste de Femme collection. The blond hair and blue eyes suggests to us that this oil painting depicts the young mistress of Picasso Marie-Thérèse Walter: Who was the mother of his daughter Maia Widmaier-Picasso, or Maya as she is often referred to.

Buste de Fem pays homage to all the artistic concepts as well as the life of Picasso. It is historical in content as well as artistic method: Therefore would be an obvious choice for any lover of Picasso – His life and his works. The colors are soothing and the style abstract Cubist: This is a true ode to Modern Art.

Around 1940 Alfred Barr was the director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He organized a retrospective of Picasso’s art works and since then his work has been reinterpreted over and over again by contemporary artists and historians alike. Buste de Fem is among those reinterpretations: And indeed, it is an extremely successful translation of what the world now instantly recognizes as a Picasso.