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Femme aux Bras Croisés (Woman with Folded Arms) is a painting by Pablo Picasso done in 1902 during his Blue Period. The subject of the painting is unknown but she may be an inmate of the Saint-Lazare hospital-prison in Paris.In her book Pablo Picasso Antonina Vallentin devotes a great deal of time to writing about the haunting qualities of this painting.