Pablo Picasso
(Spain, France 1881–1973)
- Title
- Head of a woman
- Alternative title:
- Tête de femme
- Year
- 1948
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Dimensions
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65.0 x 50.0cm sheet; 99.3 x 79.7 x 2.7cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Dated u.r. in reverse, on stone "10.11.48".
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Olley 2006
- Accession number
- 171.2006
- Copyright
- © Pablo Picasso, 1904/ Succession Pablo Picasso. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Only six proofs of this print are recorded. It represents Françoise Gilot, whom Picasso met in 1943. From 1945 the lover and muse begins to appear regularly in the artist's paintings, drawings and prints.
- Bibliography (3)
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John McPhee (Author), Great collections, New South Wales, 2008, 98 (colour illus.).
Rex Irwin Art Dealer (Australia, estab. 1976), Important works on paper and sculpture, 2004, (illus.).
Fernand Mourlot, Picasso lithographe, Paris, 1970. no. 122
- Exhibition history (3)
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Important works on paper and sculpture, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, 29 Mar 2004–23 Apr 2004.
Great collections (2009), Western Plains Cultural Centre, 03 Apr 2009–10 May 2009.
Great collections (2009), Albury Regional Gallery, 29 May 2009–05 Jul 2009.
