Return to Picasso's Spanish roots is significant with this stunning figurative portrait of the Ballets Russes ballerina, Olga Koklova, soon to become his first wife. Here, Olga serenely sits with a marmoreal, doll-like face looking down wistfully at the viewer. The wonderfully painted backdrop of the chair and the colourful, half-opened fan mitigates the severity of the black clothing and tight black hair.