La Lecture

La Lecture

Pablo Picasso's 1932 painting "La Lecture" depicts Picasso's mistress asleep with a book on her lap. The painting led to the breakup of Picasso's marriage after his wife saw it at an exhibition and realized that the facial features (though highly stylized) were not her own.

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