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La Lecture (or Reading) is a painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in January 1932. The oil painting depicts Picasso’s mistress and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter asleep with a book upon her lap. The painting led to the breakup of Picasso’s marriage to Olga Khokhlova after she saw it at a retrospective exhibition and realised that the facial features were not her own. The painting went to auction in 1989 and in 1996 where it failed to sell.