Two Women Looking at a Sculpted Head (Deux femmes regardant une tête sculptée)

1933

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image is a line drawing depicting two figures, showing their upper bodies and heads. The figure in the foreground is seated with both arms visible and her side profile facing left. She has delicate facial features, with a prominent eye and nose, long, flowing hair, and a floral wreath on her head. She wears a patterned garment and is adorned with a necklace. In the background, to the left, is a second figure who appears to be standing, shown largely in profile from the waist up. This figure has a similarly styled wreath in their hair and an elongated face with a distinct nose and eye. Both figures are surrounded by a simple background that includes straight and zig-zagging lines, a floral design in a small vase, and a large abstract bust with radiating lines at the right of the composition. The scene appears to be set indoors, as indicated by the patterned wall or drapery behind the figures.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on Montval laid paper [printed in 1939 by Roger Lacourière]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.8 x 19.4 cm (10 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 50.2 x 38.5 cm (19 3/4 x 15 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.108

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 302, State only (Bc)

  • Copyright

    © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1961

  • A Picasso Retrospective in Prints from the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, 12 venue tour organized by the American Federation of Arts (Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, NY; Art Association of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Miami Beach Art Center, FL; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; Fort Worth Art Center, TX; Boise Art Association, ID; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT; Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Quebec, Canada; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA), 1961-1962, no cat.

Bibliography

1968

  • Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso; catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie 1904-1967. Bern: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1968.

1990

  • Geiser, Bernhard and Brigette Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur. 2 vols. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2). See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate (in reverse): Paris 21 mars XXXIII-; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 303

Wikidata ID

Q65363332

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