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Also known, perhaps more appropriately, as Young Woman Drawing, and also as Two Women. One woman sits, apparently copying what she sees in the mirror set up in front of her, while the other sleeps with her head in her arms.
The Muse is the best-known of a series of paintings executed by Picasso at this time, showing young women drawing, writing or reading. The rounded, ample forms associated with his passion Marie Therese Walther have been replaced by an angular style which is here almost vertiginous in its effect. The sleeping girl still resembles Marie Therese, and indeed she would have a share in Picasso's affections for some years to come (their daughter Maia was born a few months after this was painted, in October 1935). But the 'other woman', already present in this painting, would soon also appear in Picasso's life.
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