Recombination of the partial superpositions
 


From the cutting up of the previous superpositions, we have reassembled several elements in order to reconstitute a common face of Woman in Blue with a Beret and Self-portrait with a Palette of 1906.

Numerous features are identical:

  • The eyebrows.
     
  • The almond shaped eyes.
     
  • The sinuous line going from the root of the eyebrow to the base of the nose.
     
  • The sinuous line with the loops on either side, marking a thick nose which is Picasso’s.
     
  • The lips that form the mouth which is Picasso’s.


In summary

  • Woman in Blue with a Beret is a self -portrait of Picasso where he projected himself, with maybe the recollection of the prostitutes in 1901. He was used to this kind of transfiguration. His own features are at the base of the portrait of Woman in Blue with a Beret. This statement is particularly striking for the mouth and the nose.
     
  • In Celestina there are a lot of Picasso’s features, but there exists a few of the model’s features caught from life or memorized.
     
  • Celestina and Woman in Blue with a Beret are « figures - symbols ».
     
  • They have a great deal of similarities and a large number of common points with Self -portrait with a Palette of 1906. Picasso’s features can be found in almost all his portraits with different facets. He is the centre, their base. A study carried out on the portrait of Gertrude Stein by the Metropolitan Museum of New York comes to the same conclusion.


In Conclusion,

These signs and features are fundamentally Picasso's and are, basically, his own features. They authenticate, just as the studies do, these portraits by Picasso.
 

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1. Comparison of portraits
2. Self-portrait with a Palette and Woman in Blue with a Beret
3. Total superposition
4. Partial superposition
5. Recombination of the partial superpositions


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