''Two Girls Reading'' (French: ''Deux Enfants Lisant'') is a 1934 painting by

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

. Since 1994, it has been at the

University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is one of the largest university art museums in the United States, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with . Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alu ...

. In 2002, UMMA included it in an exhibition called ''Picasso: Masterworks of the Collection''.

Subject matter

The figure on the left is thought to be

Marie-Thérèse Walter Marie-Thérèse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was a French model and lover of Pablo Picasso, with whom she had a daughter, Maya Widmaier-Picasso. Walter is known as Picasso's "golden muse." She inspired numerous artworks and sculpt ...

, the twenty-three-year-old woman who gave birth to Picasso's daughter Maïa in 1935. The figure on the right is thought to be either Walter's sister, or Picasso's first wife Olga Koklova. The painting shows Picasso's "fascination with the subject of women engaged in everyday activities and are united in their ability to convey intensity and peaceful contemplation simultaneously."

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