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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.293
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
Head of a Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1903
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296904

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on tan wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
23.6 x 17.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.r.: Picasso / 1903

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sebastian Junyent, Barcelona. Walter E. Sachs, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Walter E. Sachs
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.293
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Editions Cahiers d'art (Paris, 1932-1978), vol. 6, no. 527, pl. 65
  • Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso en Cataluña (Barcelona, 1966), no. 83
  • Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), cat. no. 11, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings by Picasso, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/20/1981 - 04/05/1981; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 04/29/1981 - 06/14/1981; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 07/11/1981 - 08/23/1981

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