Emily Talbot, Chief Curator at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, is hosting a lecture on Innovation and Rivalry in Picasso’s “Woman With a Book” on Saturday, Jan. 20, 5 to 6 p.m.
The lecture traces the development of Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting “Woman with a Book, at once a spirited homage to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Madame Moitessier of 1856 and a bold and vivid interpretation of the artist’s young lover Marie-Thérèse Walter.
Picasso painted it in just a day or two, but it was the product of a much longer rumination on the French artist’s portrait, which Picasso had seen in person only once, at the great Ingres exhibition in Paris in 1921. This period of gestation, spread out over many canvases with disparate themes, offers a fascinating parallel with Ingres’s own famously lengthy procedures.
A limited number of advance tickets are available to museum members. Tickets will be available for walkups on the day of the lecture starting at 4 p.m
For more information, call (626) 449-6840 or visit www.nortonsimon.org/calendar/2023/winter-2023/Innovation-and-Rivalry-in-Picassos-Woman-With-a-Book-1-21-2023-500pm/date/2023-01-21.
Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is at 411 W. Colorado Blvd.
