Image: Albright-Knox Art Gallery / Public Domain
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Pablo Picasso, 1906
Technical Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
151.1 × 99.1 cm (59.5 × 39 in)
Style
Rose Period / Proto-Cubism
Decade
1900s
About This Work
La Toilette depicts two women — one nude, arranging her hair before a mirror; the other clothed, holding the mirror. The composition is one of Picasso's most classical, its simplified forms and warm palette anticipating the Neoclassical works of the 1920s. The relationship between the two women — intimate yet formal — gives the painting a quality of timeless ritual.
Painted in 1906, La Toilette belongs to the transitional period between the Rose Period and the proto-Cubist works of 1906–1907. Picasso was spending the summer at Gósol in the Spanish Pyrenees, and the simplified, archaic forms of the painting reflect his engagement with Iberian sculpture at this time.
Current Location
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Public Collection — Open to visitors
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2026 Estimated Value
$80–120 million (est.)
* Estimates are based on comparable auction results and market analysis. Not a formal appraisal.
Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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