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Pablo Picasso

Head of a Woman, in Profile (Tête de femme, de profil), 1905, published 1913

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Medium

drypoint on wove Van Gelder paper

Dimensions

sheet: 62.2 x 48.5 cm (24 1/2 x 19 1/8 in.)
plate: 29.2 x 24.9 cm (11 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Geiser/Baer, no. 7, State only (b2)

Accession Number

2011.60.55

Artists / Makers

Pablo Picasso (artist) Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Ambroise Vollard (publisher) French, 1867 - 1939

Louis Fort (printer) French, active first half 20th century

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Copyright

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

Inscription

by later hand, lower left corner in graphite: M39

Provenance

Evelyn Nef, Washington, D.C.; bequest to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Nef, Evelyn Stefansson

Bibliography

1968: Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso; catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie 1904-1967. Bern: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1968. no. 6.

1990: Geiser, Bernhard and Brigette Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur. 2 vols. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2), no. 7. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

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