Resting in an armchair, the woman dressed in vibrant red appears fragmented and angular due to the artist's reduction of her figure into geometric forms. Pablo Picasso's portrayal of the woman is viewed from multiple perspectives, refuting the tenents of traditional Western portraiture and instead focusing on the planes of the subject's dimensionality instead. Estate of Picasso, (Marina Picasso) pencil signature and embossed blindstamp lower right. Ink stamp verso 'Approved by the heirs of Pablo Picasso'.