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Weeping Woman in Front of a Wall

Printer Printed by Jacques Frélaut French
Publisher Published by Galerie Louise Leiris
1937, printed 1961
Not on view
Picasso executed close to sixty pictures of weeping women between January and November 1937. Many of them served a preparatory drawings for his monumental antiwar mural, Guernica (Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid), although, surprisingly, there are no individual weeping women in the final version of the painting. Even after the completion of Guernica, Picasso continued to explore the theme in several paintings, drawings, and etchings. He depicts this sorrowful woman in a Spanish mantilla standing before a wall. He used a took known as a scraper to create the many marks on her tormented face and to emphasize the gashlike tears streaming from her eyes.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Weeping Woman in Front of a Wall
  • Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
  • Printer: Printed by Jacques Frélaut (French)
  • Publisher: Published by Galerie Louise Leiris (Paris) , 1980
  • Date: 1937, printed 1961
  • Medium: Aquatint and drypoint
  • Dimensions: plate: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
    sheet: 20 x 15 3/4 in. (50.8 x 40 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Reiss-Cohen Inc., 1983
  • Object Number: 1983.1212.35
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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