Bust of a Woman with Hand Raised (Buste de femme à la main levée)

1906

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image depicts a stylized and abstract representation of a person's upper body. The figure's head is slightly tilted downward, with discernible facial features including eyes, nose, and mouth. The hair is long and flows around the face with textured lines. There are no distinct clothes visible, but the texture suggests a body silhouette. The background is a plain brown canvas that contrasts with the figure, emphasizing its prominence in the composition.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on brown paper [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6735

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 211, State only

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1958

  • Picasso: A Loan Exhibition of his Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, and Illustrated Book, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1958, prints section, no. 14.

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.

1966

  • Picasso: Sixty Years of Graphic Works, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966, no. 22, repro.

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), no. 211. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

Wikidata ID

Q65024201

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