Pablo Picasso Painting Woman Reading on Elementary's A Stitch in Time

Summary: The Pablo Picasso painting Woman Reading suffers secret, sinister, solitary strategies in the Elementary series episode A Stitch in Time April 16, 2015.

Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's 1939 oil on canvas Femme Couchée Lisant appears in Elementary tv series' A Stitch in Time (season 3, episode 20): Literature & Books ‏@Lit_Books via Twitter April 13, 2014

The Pablo Picasso painting Woman Reading appears on a wall and as a rolled-up carryout April 16, 2015, in the episode A Stitch in Time in the Columbia Broadcasting System series Elementary.

Director Ron Fortunato and story developer Robert Doherty, writer Peter Ocko and executive editor Jeffrey Paul King bring the painting into ample accommodations and adequate lodgings. The calm composition claims a conspicuous corner right of the entrance to the commodious living room in real estate businessman Collin Eisely's (Eric Bogosian) capacious apartment. Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) deems a second visit prudent and discerns that "That's not the same painting that was here the first time we visited."

The woman's portrait from 1939 ends up as Eiseley's payment for Nadim Al-Haj (Lohrasp Kansara) to excavate a tunnel to extract Ruby transatlantic cable-relayed, investment-impacting information.

The Pablo Picasso painting Woman Reading favors color schemes of black for slippers, blue for clothing, gray for walls, green for windowpanes and red for blankets.

A blue-eyed, fair-skinned blonde gets into the fetal position on her right side to gaze upon open pages atop a red blanket while grasping a pillow. Her hair, held back from her face, hangs down from a left-sided part and her square-necked, short-sleeved, loose-skirted dress hides her legs to below the ankles. The model is Marie-Thérèse Walter (July 3, 1909-Oct. 20, 1977), whose light-complected, light-eyed, light-haired impressions indicated Swedish inputs into her genetic inheritance at Le Perreux, Val-de-Marne.

Pablo Picasso (Oct. 2, 1881-April 8, 1973) juggled Marie-Thérèse into his personal and professional life as mistress and model sometime between January 1925 and 1928 onward.

His first wife Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova (May 17, 1891-Feb. 11, 1955) knew nothing until 1935 about Marie-Thérèse, whom Picasso kept in Juan-les-Pins, Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre or Paris.

Olga left Paris with their son Paulo Picasso (Feb. 4, 1921-June 5, 1975) for southern France in 1935 upon learning about Picasso's long-term liaison with Marie-Thérèse. Picasso made Jacqueline Roque (Feb. 24, 1927-Oct. 15, 1986) his second wife, not Marie-Thérèse, mother of Maïa Widmaier-Picasso (born María de la Concepción, Sep. 5, 1935). Previously, he nudged Marie-Thérèse out of, and Dora Maar (Nov. 22, 1907-July 16, 1997) and Françoise Gilot (born Nov. 26, 1921) into, mistress, model, muse niches.

Sherlock observes the Pablo Picasso painting Woman Reading as a "woman's portrait. Not well-known, but even a lesser work by the master must be worth millions."

Dora, Françoise, Jacqueline and Lydia Sylvette David Corbettt (born Nov. 14, 1934) perhaps provoked more permanently popular portraits than Marie-Thérèse's in Woman Reading (Femme couchée lisant).

Marie-Thérèse queued up with Olga and Françoise, mother of Claude (born May 1, 1947) and Paloma (born April 19, 1949), in quadrupling their painter through posterity. The Musée Picasso ("Picasso Museum") in Paris's Marais district retains the 96.5- by 130-centimeter (37.99- by 1.18-inch) oil on canvas as Inventory number MP177 since 1979. Woman Reading survives within salt tax collector Pierre Aubert de Fontenary's (1584-1668) Hôtel Salé ("Salted Hotel") at 5 rue de Thorigny, not scrolled in Al-Haj's hands.

Perhaps secretive, sequestering strategies thrust the Pablo Picasso painting Woman Reading among the treasures of Collin Eisely, dissimilarly sinister in secretively sequestrating Ruby transatlantic cable data.

Striking artwork, such as Pablo Picasso's Femme Couchée Lisant (1939 oil on canvas), in a house alert Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) to a sly suspect in Elementary tv series' A Stitch in Time (season 3, episode 20): Elementary @Elementary CBS via Facebook April 16, 2015

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's 1939 oil on canvas Femme Couchée Lisant appears in Elementary tv series' A Stitch in Time (season 3, episode 20): Literature & Books ‏@Lit_Books via Twitter April 13, 2014, @ https://twitter.com/Lit_Books/status/455277019622694912

Striking artwork, such as Pablo Picasso's Femme Couchée Lisant (1939 oil on canvas), in a house alert Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) to a sly suspect in Elementary tv series' A Stitch in Time (season 3, episode 20): Elementary @Elementary CBS via Facebook April 16, 2015, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/426475547477562/

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