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Femme et pot de moutarde

painting by Pablo Picasso

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ24046508 ↗
Source-derived summary

Femme et pot de moutarde (English: Woman with Mustard Pot) is a 1910 painting by Pablo Picasso. The portrait shows Picasso's lover of the time, Fernande Olivier. The painting formed part of The Armory Show in New York, that introduced North America to Picasso and several other modern painters and sculptors, for a price of US$675.

The painting hangs in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Femme et pot de moutarde” as painting by Pablo Picasso. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Femme, moutarde and painting can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as painting by Pablo Picasso. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24046508. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Femme et pot de moutarde”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Femme et pot de moutarde primary sources, Femme et pot de moutarde archive and Femme research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Femme et pot de moutarde”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Femme et pot de moutarde” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.