Picasso Ingres: Face to Face

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Madame Moitessier must’ve really left an impact on Pablo Picasso: The prolific Spanish artist saw the 19th-century painting in person during a 1921 exhibition, and about a decade later Picasso rolled up Ingres’s composition into his own colorful canvas, Woman with a Book. Now, for the first time—well, second, following its recent debut in London—the two paintings are displayed side by side at the Norton Simon Museum. Though Picasso never publicly commented on the parallels between the pieces, the homages are obvious and fascinating in this small but lovely display, which our colleagues at Time Out London also noted pairs “two grotty old pervs [who] paint saucy portraits of pretty young girls.”