Les femmes dans loeuvre de picasso biography
Head of a Woman (Fernande)
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Title:Head of a Woman (Fernande)
Artist:Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
Date:Clay original: Paris, autumn 1909; Plaster model: Paris, late 1910; Bronze cast: Foundry Désiré or Florentin Godard, Paris, made to order for Ambroise Vollard between July 27, 1926, and March 11, 1927
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:16 1/4 × 9 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (41.3 × 24.8 × 26.7 cm)
Classification:Sculpture
Credit Line:Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2021
Object Number:2021.33
Rights and Reproduction:© 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Inscription: Signed (back of neck near bottom): Picasso
[Ambroise Vollard, Paris, until 1926; sold on July 27, 1926, for Fr 8,000, as "Tête cubiste," through William Aspenwall Bradley, to Weyhe]; [Weyhe Gallery, New York, 1926–early 1950s; sold in the early 1950s to Hines]; Mrs. Ralph J. Hines (née Mary Elizabeth Borden, former Mary Elizabeth Borden Pirie), New York (early 1950s–d. 1961); her son, Robert Pirie, Hamilton, Mass. (1961–84; sold in September 1984 to Lauder); Leonard A. Lauder, New York (1984–2013; transferred on April 8, 2013 to the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust); The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust, New York (2013–21; gift to MMA)
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Cubism and Abstract Art," March 2–April 19, 1936, no. 212 (as "Head," lent by the Weyhe Gallery, New York).
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," November 15, 1939–January 7, 1940, no. 83 (as "Woman’s Head," 1909?, lent by the Weyhe Gallery).
Art Institute of Chicago. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," February 1–March 5, 1940, no. 83.
City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," March 16–April 14, 1940, no. 83.
Boston. Museum of Fine Arts. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," April 26–May 25, 1940, no. 83
Picasso’s 1950’s masterpiece
The series based on the Delacroix ‘femmes’ Picasso painted during 1954–55 consisted of nearly 100 studies on paper and 14 other paintings of which this, Version “O” is the acknowledged masterpiece, joining Les demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937) on the undoubted peaks of Picasso’s oeuvre.
In addition to taking on Delacroix, Picasso had also conceived the series as an elegy to his friend and great artistic rival, Matisse, who died five weeks before he began the series in 1954. Matisse had viewed Delacroix as his immediate forebear in terms of colour and oriental subject matter. ‘When Matisse died he left his odalisques to me as a legacy,’ Picasso stated.
Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) is a phenomenon. This vast canvas is packed with references to Cubism, fractured or flat perspectives, violent colour clashes and the brilliant syntheses of Picasso’s lifelong obsessions, all referenced together as a savage response to the Delacroix work and echoing Matisse in a maelstrom of colour and shattered and flattened perspectives. In the process, Picasso created a new style of painting.
Previously in the collection of Victor and Sally Ganz, Christie’s sold this work in 1997 for $31,902,500; more than twice its high estimate of $12m. Over the years, Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) has been featured prominently in major Picasso retrospectives, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1957 and 1980, The National Gallery in London in 1960, the Grand Palais, Paris in 1966–67, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1968 and more recently in the survey Picasso et les Maîtres at the Louvre in 2008–09 as well as in Picasso: Challenging the Past at London’s National Gallery in 2009 and Picasso & Modern British Art at Tate Britain in 2002
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Le Picasso de Poche - 1964 - Octobre 2023
Après une enfance sinistre en Picardie, sous le joug d’une mère revêche et vindicative, Marcel Duhamel a sans doute choisi de traverser l’existence dans la joie, la fête et la légèreté, sans jamais perdre de vue la nécessité de gagner sa vie. L’hôtellerie, la traduction de grands auteurs américains, le cinéma, le théâtre, l’édition, (et la liste n’est pas exhaustive !), le créateur de la « Série Noire » a exercé une multitude de métiers.
Toute jeune, je m’étais déjà délectée de son autobiographie, « Raconte pas ta vie », si drôle et pétillante, une myriade de souvenirs désopilants et savoureux. Il y racontait la cohabitation avec Jacques Prévert et Yves Tanguy, ses compagnons de régiment pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale. Leur petite bicoque ouverte à tous, au 54 rue du Château à Paris, réaménagée par leurs soins, abrita très vite les réunions surréalistes. Ainsi Jacques Prévert se remémorait : « Breton disait de la rue du Château qu’il n’avait pas vu pareille atmosphère de liberté… Il y avait un peintre, Yves Tanguy qui n’avait jamais peint, un mécène, Marcel Duhamel, qui était alors directeur d’hôtel, et moi qui ne foutais rien. ». Tandis que Breton confiait : « On y trouve le véritable alambic de l’humour au sens surréaliste ». Giacometti, Desnos, Breton, Queneau, Benjamin Perret, Aragon, et tant d’autres encore accouraient à ces soirées délirantes et arrosées, cela bien entendu, sous la vigilance scandalisée du voisinage.
Stamp by Pablo Picasso
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotte Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973) "Picasso" redirects here. For other uses, see Picasso (disambiguation). Pablo Picasso Picasso in 1962 Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso Málaga, Spain Mougins, France Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-CubistLes Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two art
Pablo Picasso
Born
(1881-10-25)25 October 1881Died 8 April 1973(1973-04-08) (aged 91) Resting place Château of Vauvenargues
43°33′15″N5°36′16″E / 43.554142°N 5.604438°E / 43.554142; 5.604438Education Years active 1897–1973 Known for Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing Notable work Movement Cubism, Surrealism Spouses Partners Children Parents Family Awards Patron(s)