2023M- Spain 999 Silver 1oz 10 Euro Picasso Woman In Blue NGC PR PF 69

10 EUR = USD 10. Series: 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. Detail of the Portrait of Pablo Picasso in a white sweater in his studio Le Fournas, Vallauris, taken by the photographer Edward Quinn in 1953 and Picasso's signature to the right.

Colour reproduction of the work entitled "Woman in Blue", made by Pablo Picasso in 1901, which is kept in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid. Mintmark of Royal Mint of Spain (M). Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda), Madrid, Spain (1591-date). Between January and May 1901, after a first stay in Paris the previous year, Picasso settled in Madrid. There he coincides with the writers and artists of the generation of'98, with whom he collaborates in the magazine Arte Joven of which he himself was artistic director. During those months, in addition to the illustrations for the magazine, the artist made a series of portraits of courtesans with multiple references ranging from modernism - which he had known in Barcelona - to Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec or the brushwork of El Greco and even Velázquez, from whom he borrows the composition of his portrait of Mariana of Austria. Picasso sent Woman in Blue to the General Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid that year, where she went unnoticed. Before the exhibition ended he had already left Madrid to prepare for his first individual show in Paris. The work would be forgotten and would not be rescued until decades later, when it became part of the then National Museum of Modern Art.

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