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''Les Femmes d'Alger'' (Women of Algiers) is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish cubist artist Pablo Picasso. The series was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's 1834 painting ''The Women of Algiers in their Apartment'' ((フランス語:Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement)). The series is one of several painted by Picasso in tribute to artists that he admired.〔''Picasso: Challenging the Past'' National Gallery p 109-114〕 The entire series of ''Les Femmes d'Alger'' was bought by Victor and Sally Ganz from the Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris for $212,500 in June 1956.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/pablo-picasso-les-femmes-dalger-315763-details.aspx?intObjectID=315763 )〕 Ten paintings from the series were later sold by the Ganz's to the Saidenberg Gallery, with the couple keeping versions "C", "H", "K", "M" and "O".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.christies.com/presscenter/pdf/2015/CHRISTIES_TO_OFFER_PICASSOS_ICONIC_MASTERPIECE_OF_THE_1950s.pdf )〕 Many of the individual paintings in the series are now in prominent public and private collections. ==Origin== In December 1954, Picasso began to paint a series of free variations on Delacroix's ''The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (Les Femmes d'Alger)''. He began his first version (cat. 19) six weeks after learning of the death of his lifelong friend and rival Henri Matisse — and so, for Picasso, the "oriental" subject of this series of paintings held strong associations with Matisse as well as with Delacroix. Matisse had been famous for his images of languid, voluptuous women known as ''odalisques'' — the French form of the Turkish word for women in a harem. "When Matisse died he left his odalisques to me as a legacy," joked Picasso. Many of Picasso's portrayals of Jacqueline circa 1955–56 represent her in this guise (cat. 9).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Matisse Picasso: room guide, room 12 )〕 The consequences of Picasso's ''Femmes d'Alger'' series were far-reaching: "I thought so much about ''Les Femmes d'Alger'' that I bought La Californie," Picasso explained to his biographer Pierre Daix. La Californie is a Belle-Époque villa situated in the foothills of Cannes in the South of France, where Picasso spent his last decades. Picasso bought it in 1955, and it was here that he painted the ''Nude in a Rocking-Chair'' (cat. 16). The light-filled interiors, the views over the Mediterranean and the exotic garden evoked a feeling of spaciousness and ease which corresponded to Picasso's idea of the Orient. The art historian and collector Douglas Cooper was perhaps the first to realise that the paintings done at La Californie marked a return to Picasso's peak form. In April 1956, he wrote to the curator Alfred Barr: "I recently spent the day with Picasso and went through most of what he has done since last July. I have been greatly impressed...A whole series of interiors of La Californie deriving half from Delacroix half from Matisse — great emphasis on ornament, arabesque, simplification...In short, as you are planning to come to Europe, this is a word to tell you that you must see all this in the studio: it is to my mind much better than anything since 1946." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Les Femmes d'Alger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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