Femme assise à la robe bleue II | Picasso Collection Cushion Cover

The cushion cover is inspired by Pablo Picasso’s painting Seated Woman in a Blue Dress II (1949), a post-war portrait from his series depicting Françoise Gilot, who was both his muse and partner at the time. Pablo Picasso created this work during a period where his style became more expressive and simplified, moving away from strict Cubist fragmentation toward bold, flattened forms and strong emotional presence. The painting shows Françoise Gilot seated in a structured yet stylised pose, often dominated by deep blues that heighten the mood and intensity of the composition. Seated Woman in a Blue Dress II is part of a broader exploration of domestic intimacy and portraiture in Picasso’s late 1940s work, where he repeatedly revisited Gilot’s image in different emotional and formal variations. The cushion cover translates this painting into a decorative textile form, simplifying and adapting Picasso’s bold colour blocks and expressive lines into a functional interior object while retaining the recognisable emotional tone of the original artwork.