©Pablo Picasso - Woman Ironing 1901

Picasso Woman Ironing 1901
Woman Ironing
1901 49x25cm Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
Laundresses were famously the subject of Honoré Daumier, who was given a large exhibition in Paris in 1901. They were also painted by Edgar Degas, although very few of his works were displayed publicly in Paris at the turn of the century. Daumier's lithographs were passed around the studios of Barcelona, as were the few illustrated books on Degas's work.
Picasso's laundress is much more abject than those of either of his French antecedents; the bleak mood of the painting recalls that found in the work of the Catalan painter Isidre Nonell. Picasso gave this painting to his friend Jaime Sabartés, a poet. Alfred Stieglitz, the New York photographer and art dealer, bought it in 1912.