Femme, from Picasso Oeuvres 1920-1926
1922-1923
20th century
28.8 cm x 22.8 cm (11 5/16 in. x 9 in.)
Pablo Picasso
(Málaga, Spain, 1881 - 1973, Mougins, France)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Spanish
Medium and Support:
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Teaching Collection of Marvin Vexler, '48, 2001
Accession Number:
2001.16
An uncommon print, Femme distills Picasso’s quintessential subject to intimate scale and especially charming terms. In style it is located precisely at the artist’s transition from later, Synthetic Cubism to the newly integrated figuration, and threshold classicism, of his so-called Surrealist period. It also contains one of the very first appearances of the head rendered as a profile within a frontal view, which would become one of the artist’s most famous motifs