Head of a Woman

Pablo Picasso Spanish
 Printed by Jacques Frélaut French
 Published by Galerie Louise Leiris

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The bulbous shapes in this drypoint derive from the monumental plaster heads of Marie-Thérèse Walter that Picasso produced in Boisgeloup during the summer of 1931. Interested in transforming a three-dimensional sculpture into a flat print, he obsessively worked and reworked the print in twenty states. This impression, pulled from the final state, reveals evidence of pentimenti, or drawing from earlier states.

Head of a Woman, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France), Drypoint

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Head of a Woman, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France), Drypoint
Head of a Woman, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France), Drypoint

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