Woman in a Chemise

"Woman in a Chemise" is a work by Pablo Picasso that is often associated with the art movement Surrealism. While Picasso was never an official member of the Surrealist group, his art shared many elements with their ideals, such as the creation of "monsters" and disturbing juxtapositions. The painting, created in 1913, features broken contours of the human figure, which Surrealist proponents like André Breton pointed to as an example of Picasso's work aligning with their movement's focus on dreamlike imagery and the idea of reading one thing for another. This connection to Surrealism brought new, often erotic, subjects into Picasso's art and reinforced existing disturbing elements.1