Exchange: Translate-a-thon: Asian Languages

Translate-a-thon: Asian Languages

Two girls, depicted in bold geometric shapes and block colors, reading a book together. The figure seated at viewer's right, slightly taller, is green and wearing yellow. The figure at viewer's left has a face of blue and white and is clothed in red resting her clasped hands upon an open book.

Pablo Picasso
Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant)
oil on canvas
43 3/8 in x 35 3/16 in x 3 in (110.17 cm x 89.38 cm x 7.62 cm);43 3/8 in x 35 3/16 in x 3 in (110.17 cm x 89.38 cm x 7.62 cm);36 5/16 in x 28 3/4 in (92.2 cm x 73 cm)
Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation

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A bull in the center charges to the left toward a horse rearing up with a bullfighter on its back. The bullfighter leans forward to plunge a spear into the bull's shoulder area. Flags and spectator stands lie in the background.

Pablo Picasso
The Bullfight (Courses de taureaux)
oil on canvas
17 3/8 in. x 22 11/16 in. x 1 15/16 in. ( 44.13 cm x 57.63 cm x 4.92 cm )
Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation

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Pablo Picasso
Fleurs et mains (Flowers and Hands); After the crayon drawing
color lithograph on paper
26 5/16 x 19 5/16 in. (66.8 x 48.9 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Kripke

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A sweeping winter river scene opens up from the foreground and sweeps away towards the left. Ice floes dot the river surface and snowy hills frame trees that stand along the riverbank in the middle distance. The palette of this painting is restricted to mauves, blues, greens, and whites.

Claude Monet
The Break-up of the Ice (La Débâcle or Les Glaçons)
oil on canvas
23 ¾ in x 39 3/10 in (60.33 cm x 99.85 cm);32 ½ in x 48 in x 2 ¾ in (82.55 cm x 121.92 cm x 6.99 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of Russell B. Stearns (LS&A, 1916), and his wife Andree B. Stearns, Dedham, Massachusetts

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This etching is a line drawing of a girl's face, filling the entire frame. The girl has curly hair. There is a border drawn around her face.

Pablo Picasso
Head of a Girl
1945
etching | heavy Japan paper
Museum Purchase
1950/2.20

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Bust portrait of woman. Her hair is brown, shoulder length, and curls at the bottom. Her high-collared blouse has off-white and light blue vertical stripes. She looks directly at the viewer

Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Françoise (Buste de Femme)
02/28/1949
oil | canvas
Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation
1994/1.68

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Pablo Picasso
Peacock
1947
lithograph | paper
Gift of Herbert Barrows
2000/2.259

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This is an image of interior space, where a woman in green sits on a chair at a blank canvas on an easel to the right. A hefty wooden piece of furniture sits behind the figure. Brown and blue zigzag lines fill out the interior throughout. Yellow tea service is located in the bottom left corner. The date of the design is inscribed in the stone (u.l.) "7.4.56" and the print is numbered in pencil (l.r.) "25/250".

Pablo Picasso
Dans L'Atelier de Cannes
1956
color lithograph | paper
Gift of Ruth W. and Clarence J. Boldt, Jr.
2008/2.433

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In the center of the paper there are two nude women standing side by side. The body of the figure on the left is more visible because her arms are above her head revealing her breasts and torso, while the figure on the right is hunched over working on her hair. There is text inscribed in ink at the top right that says "las pobrecito arreglar las visos para ganare la vida."

Pablo Picasso
Deux femmes nues
sepia ink on woven paper
4 7/16 in x 3 9/16 in (11.27 cm x 9.05 cm);19 1/4 in x 14 5/16 in (48.9 cm x 36.3 cm);7 3/16 in x 6 3/16 in (18.2 cm x 15.7 cm)
Gift of the Lannan Foundation in Honor of the Pelham Family

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