Two Women Waking Up (Deux Femmes au Réveil)

1959, printed 1964

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Hidalgo Arnéra

Printer, French, 1922-2007

The image displays curved and angular lines forming an abstract composition. The shapes and swirls create a scene that might resemble intertwined bodies or dancers in motion. There are elements that could be connected to a bed or drapery. In the top portion, an oval shape with intersecting lines suggests a light fixture or a window, while the vertical lines on the right evoke the image of a curtain or bars. The abstract nature of the work invites comparisons to familiar yet ambiguous forms found in everyday life.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    rinsed linocut with hand-applied india ink and wax crayon on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Print Purchase Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 61.7 x 74.9 cm (24 5/16 x 29 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1997.68.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 1249, State ii/ii (c)

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jem Hom, New York); purchased 1997 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 98, as Two Women Waking Up.

Bibliography

1968

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

1986

  • Baer, Brigette. Picasso peintre-graveur. 5 vols and Addendum. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1986 (vol. 3); 1988 (vol. 4); 1989 (vol. 5); 1994 (vol. 6); 1996 (vol. 7 and Addendum). See volumes 1 and 2 under Geiser/Baer 1990-1992.

1990

  • Geiser, Bernhard and Brigette Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur. 2 vols. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2), no. 1249. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

Inscriptions

recto: lower left to lower center in red pencil: Picasso; across verso in black ink: 12.1.64

Wikidata ID

Q75404051

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