Two Girls Reading

Two Girls Reading (French: Deux Enfants Lisant) is a 1934 painting by Pablo Picasso. Since 1994, it has been at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.^[1]

Two Girls Reading
French: Deux Enfants Lisant
Artist	Pablo Picasso
Completion date	March 28, 1934
Medium	oil on canvas
Movement	Cubism
Subject	Two side-by-side figures sitting at a table and reading a book
Dimensions	43 3/8 in x 35 3/16 in x 3 in (110.17 cm x 89.38 cm x 7.62 cm)
Location	University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan

In 2002, UMMA included it in an exhibition called Picasso: Masterworks of the Collection.^[2][3]

Subject matter

The figure on the left is thought to be Marie-Thérèse Walter, the twenty-three-year-old woman who gave birth to Picasso's daughter Maïa in 1935.^[1][4][2] The figure on the right is thought to be either Walter's sister, or Picasso's first wife Olga Koklova.^[1]

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."^[3]

See also

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Girls Reading (Jeunes Filles Lisant), 1891
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Two Sisters (Les Deux Soeurs), 1889
• Robert Reid (American painter), Two Girls Reading, No Date
• Henri Lebasque, Reading in the Park (Jeunes filles lisant dans le parc), No Date
• Jenny Montigny, Two Girls Reading (Deux Filles Lisant), No Date
• Ludvig Find, Two girls reading a book (To små piger læser i en bog), No Date