Descripción
The painting depicted on the poster was painted by Picasso on 13 December 1954.
Neither this poster nor its motif have been reproduced on any other posters. However, on the same subject, it is worth mentioning that the last version of this series painted on 14 February 1955 was used on a poster published by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1988 for the exhibition entitled “Le Dernier Picasso”.
The poster reproduces the first of Picasso’s fifteen versions of Delacroix’s work “Les Femmes d’Alger”. In this version, painted on 13 December 1954, he moved the figures from the original painting to the places he thought most appropriate and altered the meaning of the erotic element from negative to positive. Jacqueline is shown sleeping gracefully on the right; In the background, the maid shows her bare buttocks and, to the left, there is a female figure balancing with the group in front of a keyhole-shaped stained glass window, a motif from the original that Picasso preserved in twelve of his versions.
