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Girl before a Mirror, another masterpiece by the father of cubism Pablo Picasso, is valued at 179.4 million dollars. Picasso's mistress and favourite muse Marie-Thérèse Walter is shown in the 1932 artwork. This artwork, which is now kept in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, is renowned for its intricate symbolism and hidden meanings that critics are still trying to figure out. But what is the meaning of this painting by Picasso, and why was it painted?

Picasso is one of the very few painters who used the money he made from his artwork to live a life of luxury. Artists frequently struggled to find patrons and lived in poverty throughout his era. Picasso turned 51 in 1932, but his standing had not dipped even slightly. He was concentrating on his mistress and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, 22, who had become known as an important artist. Picasso initially made her photographs available to the public in 1932, the same year he made the world aware of his illicit relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter while still married to Olga Khokhlova. Picasso supposedly loved painting a portrait of his mistress, Girl before a Mirror. She was 17 years old and Picasso was 45 when they first met. "You have an interesting face, I would like to do a portrait of you," he said when introducing himself. And for years, he continued to do so. In order to house his lover there and visit her on weekends, he even bought a country property 45 miles northwest of Paris in 1930. Many of Marie-Thérèse Walter's pictures depict their passionate relationship and are highly sexually explicit. Picasso's wife ultimately deserted him, and in 1935, he fathered a daughter with Marie-Thérèse Walter. But did Picasso fall in love with Marie-Thérèse Walter because of only her face, or was it because of his passionate love for her?

The fact that this picture demonstrates how Picasso departed from conventional painting techniques like tonality and consistency in the representation of the subject is what makes it so popular and pricey. Instead, he used flat blocks of colour that spanned the entire spectrum to represent his mistress. The amount of light and dark that must be used to represent the size of the objects is similarly minimal. Picasso emphasised the two-dimensionality of the paint and canvas. The curved lines and circular patterns in the picture also highlight the woman's whole anatomy and fertility. According to several art critics, this portrays Picasso's perspective on women.