- Femme aux Bras Croisés
Infobox Painting
image_size=200px
title=Femme aux Bras Croisés
artist=Pablo Picasso
year=1902
type=Oil on lithograph
height=60
width=81
height_inch=72.4
width_inch =41.3
museum=Privately held"Femme aux Bras Croisés" ("Woman with Folded Arms"), is a painting by
Pablo Picasso done in 1902 during hisBlue Period . The subject of the painting is unknown, but may be an inmate of the Saint-Lazare hospital-prison in Paris.cite news|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2000/11/10/post.t_5.php|title=AUCTIONS : A Picasso Record|author=Melikian, Souren|date=2000-11-10|publisher=International Herald Tribune]In her book "Pablo Picasso", Antonina Vallentin devotes a great deal of time to writing about the haunting qualities of this painting. She describes her views of the subject as an inmate, who recently attempted suicide and now carries the blank but menacing stare of those unfortunates who found themselves at Saint-Lazare during the early 1900s.cite book|title=Pablo Picasso|author=Vallentin, Antonina|year=1957|publisher=A. Michel|page=69]
Ownership history
Gertrude Stein originally bought the painting from Picasso. In 2000 it sold in auction atChristie's , New York, for more than 55 million dollars.cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/926736.stm|publisher=BBC News Online|date=2000-09-15|title=Picasso for sale - a snip at £16m]References
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