Head Of A Woman

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Object Details

Artist
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, b. Málaga, 1881–1973
Date
(1906-1907/cast by 1939)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
4 1/2 X 3 1/4 X 3 3/8 IN. (11.5 X 8.2 X 8.4 CM.) WT. 1 1/1 LB. (.7 KG.)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.4048

Estate of Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939
Peridot Gallery, New York, to 28 March 1958
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 28 March 1958-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
[DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 190 (did not tour).]
[SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 366.]
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective," 1 May-30 September 1980, catalog by William Rubin, ill. p. 81.
PALACIOS DE VELASQUEZ Y CRISTAL, PARQUE DEL RETIRO, Madrid. "Escultura Espanola 1900-1936," 23 May-22 July 1985 (extended to 21 August?), ill. pp. 116, 282.
NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin. "Picasso--Plastiken," 6 October-27 November 1983, no. 12, ill. pp. 38, 326, p. 372. Book catalog by Werner Spies as Picasso--Das Plastische Werk. TOUR: KUNSTHALLE, Dusseldorf, 11 December 1983-29 January 1984.

UNSIGNED. "A Look into the Future--The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden," Washington Post (22 May 1966), colorplate sec. K, p. 1.
FRANKENSTEIN, ALFRED, in The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden by Abram Lerner, et al. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), pp. 120, 733, ill. 176 p. 134.
JOHNSON, RON. The Early Sculpture of Picasso 1901-1914, (Diss; reprint, New York: Garland, 1976), fig. 48, p. 165, ill. p. 212.
ALLOWAY, LAWRENCE, et al. "Picasso: A Symposium," Art in America 68/10 (December 1980), ill. p. 13.
RUBIN, WILLIAM, ed., et al. "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984), vol. I, ill. p. 248.
MCCULLY, MARILYN. Pablo Picasso: The Artist Before Nature (Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1989), no. 49, p. 107, erratum. (Note--work was not in the exhibition.)

Signature
Incised On Back LC : Picasso
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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