My name is Will Reynolds and I have identified a paint sample that I have had run through x-ray florescence spectroscopy at the UCF materials classifications Lab and I would like to compare my results to any known results. The pigments were identified as as pre world war 2 ripolin black and ripolin Prussian blue. The samples were run on the 7th of august on a Panalytical Epsilon-1 XRF spectrometer. The instrument is located in the Materials Characterization Facility at the University of 4353 Scorpius Street, Suite 102, Orlando, FL 32816 Phone: 407-882-1500 The samples are from a possible Picasso relief that may be the model for one of the first ‘la Femme Couchee’. The first two are of the painting in my possession the third is the sample that was run at UCF and the fourth is the painting that is now in Melbourne Australia The painting was in possession of a caregiver and was given to her by a woman named Alice Rahon who was in a nursing home outside of Mexico City in 1987. … Quick facts about Alice Rahon Also known as Alice Paalen, Alice Marie Yvonne Philppot, Alice Rahon Paalen Born: June 8, 1904, Chenecey-Buillon Died: 1987 (age 83 years), Mexico City, Mexico Periods: surrealism abstract expressionism Books: Shapeshifting Form: painting At the age of three, Alice suffers an accident where she breaks her right hip. She is forced to wear a cast for almost three years. At the age of twelve, a second accident results in a broken leg. These physical injuries have a long-term effect on the artist’s life. Alice had two brief affairs with Pablo Picasso, which one ends when her husband Paalen threatens to kill himself. In December 1931 Pablo Picasso began a series of paintings of Marie-Thérèse Walter, a French model with whom he was romantically involved while married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. Perhaps acknowledging their double life, Picasso invented a new motif–a face encompassing both frontal and profile views. A constant innovator, Picasso experimented with materials as well as with form and style. The Red Armchair demonstrates the artist’s inventive use of Ripolin, an industrial house paint. Mixing it with oil paint he produced various surfaces, from the rough, yellow background to the almost brushless finish of the black lines.

1 meter by 80 centimeters