Pablo Picasso
Artwork Detail
The subject of this print was one of the Saltimbanques, a travelling troupe of street perfomers from Spain and southern France whom Picasso observed during visits to the Cirque Médrano. The young woman’s fine facial features are delicately modelled with a sophisticated combination of long, straight, vertical strokes across the side of the face and shorter, directional marks around the eye, nose and mouth. Caught by the artist in a moment of reflection, her gaze and quiet attitude suggests the inward direction of her thoughts. (Headspace, 2002)
- Title
- Head of a Woman (Tête de femme)
- Artist/creator
- Pablo Picasso
- Production date
- 1905
- Medium
- drypoint
- Dimensions
- 291 x 242 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1956
- Accession no
- 1956/31/3
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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