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Exhibitions & Events
America’s 250th

Celebrating American art and artists
Art & Artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Young Woman in a Striped Blouse

1949

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image shows an artistic rendering of a person, depicting the upper portion of their body. The figure is facing the viewer directly, with stylized facial features, expressive eyes, a simplified mouth, voluminous hair framing the head, and clothing indicated by alternating light and dark vertical stripes. The background is dark with a light gradient, emphasizing the individual, and there are no visible accessories. The artist's signature is in the top right corner.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jem Hom, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

sheet: 65.8 x 49.7 cm (25 7/8 x 19 9/16 in.)
Accession Number

1991.46.1
Catalogue Raisonné

Mourlot 1949-1964, no. 157, State i/ii
Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1991

Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 372-373, color repro.

Bibliography

1949

Mourlot, Fernand. Picasso lithographe. 4 vol. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1949-1964.

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), undescribed. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

1991

Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.372.

Inscriptions

upper right in plate in reverse: 26.5.49; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 204

Wikidata ID

Q74888202

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