La Rêve

VISUAL SPOTLIGHT:  La Rêve (The Dream)

VISUAL SPOTLIGHT: La Rêve (The Dream)

La Rêve (The Dream) is one of Picasso’s most sensual and famous paintings, said to have been painted in one afternoon, on January 24, 1932, at the age of 50.  It depicts her lover, 24-year-old Marie-Therese Walter, sitting on a red armchair with her eyes closed.