Les Femmes d'Alger
Painting series by Pablo Picasso / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Les Femmes d'Alger (English: Women of Algiers) is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The series, created in 1954–1955, was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's 1834 painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement).[1] The series is one of several painted by Picasso in tribute to artists that he admired.[2]
Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) | |
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English: The Women of Algiers | |
Artist | Pablo Picasso |
Year | 1955 (1955) |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 114 cm × 146.4 cm (45 in × 57.6 in) |
Location | Private collection of Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Doha, Qatar |
The entire series of Les Femmes d'Alger was bought by Victor and Sally Ganz from the Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris for $212,500 in June 1956 (equivalent to $2.4 million in 2023).[3] Ten paintings from the series were later sold by the Ganz's to the Saidenberg Gallery, with the couple keeping versions "C", "H", "K", "M" and "O".[4]
Many of the individual paintings in the series are now in prominent public and private collections.