Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973): Woman with a Book, 1932 (Oil on canvas. The Norton Simon Foundation) - Picasso transforms the earnestness of the mid-19th century sitter into a dreamy portrait of his current lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909–1977). The chromatic riot and the web of thick black lines describing the simplified forms of both her bourgeois interior and her ripe sexuality contrast with the dreamy mystery of the sitter’s gaze…