1991 Jacqueline Portrait Picasso Madrid Exhibition

This Pablo Picasso “Retratos de Jacqueline” exhibition poster features a seated portrait of Jacqueline Roque in dark clothing and a head covering, against the woven back of an armchair. A broad dusty-mauve border surrounds the image, with Fundación Juan March lettering above and the exhibition title below. The printed address identifies the Madrid venue at Castelló, 77.

Poster details

• Artist featured: Pablo Picasso
• Subject: seated portrait of Jacqueline Roque
• Exhibition: Picasso: Retratos de Jacqueline
• Venue: Fundación Juan March, Castelló 77, Madrid, Spain
• Additional printed credit: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museo Picasso
• Year: listed as 1991 in the existing product title and description; exhibition dates are not legible in the photographs reviewed
• Dimensions: 54 × 93.7 cm / 21.25 × 36.88 in
• Orientation: vertical
• Language: Spanish
• Frame not included
• Format: exhibition poster reproducing a portrait, not an original painting

About Jacqueline

The biographical text supplied with the existing listing, credited to museupicasso.cat, records that Picasso met Jacqueline Roque at the Madoura pottery workshop in Vallauris in 1952. They married in 1961, and she remained his companion, muse and model until his death in 1973. Jacqueline had a daughter, Catherine Hutin, from a previous marriage. That text also connects her place in Picasso’s visual imagination with figures in the paintings of El Greco and Delacroix.

Condition and edition

Condition is rated 6/10, with vintage wear. The photographs show curling and rippling along the paper edges, small marks in the upper-left margin and small tears or splits along the lower edge through the printed venue information. Please examine all photographs for the condition of this individual copy. Print-run size and printing technique are not documented.

Colors and interior styling

A dusty-mauve and muted rose border frames a portrait in dark brown, charcoal, warm gray, beige and cream. The woven chair introduces honey-brown tones, while pale lettering and a small yellow Picasso title lighten the surrounding field. In a softly layered contemporary bedroom, the mauve could complement warm-gray walls, cream bedding and a restrained plum or rose textile accent. For a mid-century modern reading corner, walnut furniture and a cane-backed chair would echo the portrait’s warm browns and woven detail. It could also suit an eclectic interior with aged brass, dark wood and muted patterned fabrics, using the pale lettering as a link to lighter accessories. A slim walnut frame would emphasize the chair tones; a black frame would connect with Jacqueline’s dark clothing. Frame not included.

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