The Dream Midi

Book size: 180X130mm, 120gsm cream woodfree paper, interior 144pp, round spine, deboss and foiling on cover (with flap) Lined & Unlined, Acid-free sustrainable forest paper, high paper opacity, flowing writing guaranteed, without saturation.with memo pouch inside, "The Dream" 1932 Mr and Mrs Victor W. Ganz New York The model for this extraordinary piecework was the youthful Marie Therese Walter, who became Picasso's mistress and later bore him a daughter, Maia. "The Dream" is perhaps the best-known portrait of Picasso's mistress, Marie-Therese Walter. The significance of this artwork was the curve and almost every characteristic of the subject's body is bordered by a curve. The most exhilarating new style in painting in the 1930's was Surrealism, a celebration of the illogical workings of the insensible intelligence. Picasso took an interest dream is a favourite Surrealist theme. In addition, the painting contains a hidden phallus in the upper part of the sitter's head which recurs as a hidden phallus motif in the face of the right hand figure in the drawing and a number of other hidden phallus motifs elsewhere in the composition. The force is an outline and full-face