Descripción
Neither this poster nor its subject have been reproduced on other posters. The painting reproduced on the poster is known by several names: ‘Pierruse la Main sur l’Epaule (Prostitute with her hand on her shoulder)’, according to Zervos; ‘The Morphine Addict’, according to Palau i Fabre, as this was the title of the catalogue for the exhibition of the artist’s work at the Galerie Ambroise Vollard in Boudaille, as it is the title that appears in the catalogue for the 1935 exhibition in Lyon and the title by which he is known at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona; Cirici Pellicer and Merli called it ‘Woman with Make-up’, Michelli called it ‘Woman in Paint’.
A pictorial sister of La Nana, the work was bought by Luis Plandiura and acquired by the Museus Catalanes in 1932.
Picasso in Barcelona in 1901, as mentioned in the comments on La Nana, before his second trip to Paris with Jaume Andreu Bosons, at the end of May 1901. According to Daix, the woman in the work was Odette, whose real name was Louise Lenoir. Picasso, on his first trip to Paris with Casagemas, had met three models through Isidro Nonell: Odette, Antoinette and Germaine, the last two sisters. Germaine Gargallo, the most acerbic and also the most flirtatious, was Casagemas’s passion, but she ended up marrying Ramón Pichot, whom she also cheated on. Picasso later painted several pictures with Germaine, including “Au Lapin Agile”, “La vie” and “La danse”.
