Pull back the curtains after a restful night’s sleep and let light flood into this studio. Our four Studio Suites make excellent use of the space with a calming palette and sleek finished floors alongside thoughtful details. It includes a kitchenette, dining area, and workspace. Available with a queen bed, this suite features a verandah that offers views of Osu.
These suites are named after famous paintings of Pablo Picasso
Unit 2 – Le Rêve (The Dream)
Le Rêve (The Dream in French) is a 1932 oil painting (130 × 97 cm) by Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old, portraying his 24-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is said to have been painted in one afternoon, on January 24, 1932. It belongs to Picasso’s period of distorted depictions, with its oversimplified outlines and contrasted colors resembling early Fauvism.
The erotic content of the painting has been noted repeatedly, with critics pointing out that Picasso painted an erect penis, presumably symbolizing his own, in the upturned face of his model.
Unit 5 – (La Vie)
For all the countless works of art created over hundreds of years, only a select few have the power to thoroughly mesmerize, confound, and psychologically challenge the observer. Even fewer have the ability to temporarily divorce everyone from their firmly-held artistic preferences and transcend personal biases. They stand on their own merits, as independent artistic entities. Picasso’s 1903 Blue Period masterpiece La Vie is one such rarity.
Pablo Picasso never intended for the world to have a clear understanding of the painting “La Vie”, now one of the treasured possessions of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Unit 8 – Guitar
To create Guitar Picasso made a radical leap from the sculptural tradition of modeling (carving or molding) to a new technique of assemblage. He created a first version of Guitar from cardboard in 1912, then later remade the work in sheet metal; the modern ordinariness of both of these materials is very different from traditional sculptural materials such as bronze, wood, and marble. The planes of the sheet-metal construction engage in a play of substance and void in which volume is suggested, not depicted. In a dramatic demonstration of the flexible way visual forms can be read in context, the guitar’s sound hole, which normally recedes from the instrument’s smooth surface, here projects outward into space.
Unit 11 – Au Lapin Agile
Au Lapin Agile (At the Lapin Agile) is a 1905 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. It depicts the interior of the Lapin Agile, a famous cabaret club in the Montmartre area of Paris. The composition was produced during Picasso’s Rose Period and includes a self-portrait of the artist who frequented the club in his youth. The painting is listed as one of the most expensive paintings after achieving a price of $40.7 million at Sotheby’s auction on 27 November 1989. It is housed in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
