The Rest

Pablo Picasso (Spain)

Le Repos, or The Rest, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1932, depicts a woman sleeping peacefully on her arms. The painting contains zones of colors with deep curved outlines. Picasso painted several variations of the work, which he also entitled Le Repos. The model was Picasso’s mistress during this period, Marie-Thérèse Walter. She is portrayed in many of his paintings, the most infamous being Le Reve, or The Dream.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s