
- Title Jacqueline with Flowers (Jacqueline aux fleurs)
- Artist Pablo Picasso (Pablo Ruiz Picasso; Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer; Málaga, 25 October 1881 - Mougins, France, 8 April 1973)
- Year of creation Year of creation: 2 June 1954 (Jacqueline with Flowers celebrates the entry of Picasso's new companion Jacqueline Roque into his painting. Together with Jacqueline aux Bras Croisés, painted the following day on 3 June 1954, it is the very first portrait of the woman who would become Picasso's second wife — the starting point of a new phase in both his personal life and his work. Picasso had met Jacqueline at the Madoura ceramic factory in Vallauris in 1952, where she was working as a sales assistant; he was 72 and she was 27. After the painter Françoise Gilot left him in 1953, he began courting Jacqueline — drawing a white dove in chalk on the wall of her house, and bringing her a single rose every day for six months until she agreed to see him. They lived together for the next 20 years and married quietly in Vallauris in March 1961, after the death of Picasso's first wife Olga Khokhlova. Jacqueline would become the most frequent and longest-running subject in Picasso's career, appearing in more than 400 portraits — exceeding any of his previous lovers. In this first portrait Picasso depicts her in a crouching seated pose, with her exaggeratedly long neck, almond-shaped eyes, high cheekbones, and triangular feline face that became the canonical features of his late portraits — what the biographer Antonina Vallentin called the "modern sphinx." Jacqueline herself favoured this seated posture, which would reappear in the Odalisques and Women of Algiers series begun by Picasso the following December [1954-1955], in which her dark eyes, classical Mediterranean profile and the same crouching pose endowed all the female figures with her features. As Picasso later remarked, recognising her resemblance to the figure holding the hookah in Delacroix's Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement at the Louvre: "Delacroix had already met Jacqueline")
- Technique/Medium Oil on canvas
- Original dimensions 116 x 88.5 cm (some Spanish-language sources list 81 x 100 cm, but 116 x 88.5 cm is consistent across most scholarly references)
- Collection/Museum Musée Picasso, Paris (the standard reference attribution given by most catalogues; the painting forms part of the museum's important holdings of the late portraits of Jacqueline Roque)
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