Pablo Picasso
Head of a Woman in Profile
1904
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Pablo Picasso
Head of a Woman in Profile
1904
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink, brush and black wash, Sheet: 182 × 139 mm. (7 3/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.494
This study of a woman relates closely to the reunited sheet of three studies
Seated Mother Kissing Child, Mother Kissing Standing Child, and Seated Mother
Kissing Child, as well as to the single sheet Mother Kissing Child. Based on a common model, most of these form part of Picasso’s exploration of the theme of maternal devotion developed most fully in The Acrobat Family, Göteborg Museum of Art. In this sketch, however, without a baby to kiss, the woman’s pouting expression appears more sensual than maternal.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore; possibly Michael and Sarah Stein; Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris (until 1914?)
Oliver Shell, BMA, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger," 22 February through 17 May 2009.
Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborgs, Sweden, "Pablo Picasso: The Acrobat Family," August 4- November 30, 2006, no. 15, p. 130, ill. p. 56.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure," August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
BMA, "Picasso: the Museum Collection," 11 July - 27 August 1989.
BMA, Cone Galleries rotation (installation #6), 1 February - 1 July 1988.
BMA, ''Sketches and Sketchbook Pages'', April 25-June 25, 1978.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 16, 1970-March 1, 1971, p. 165; modified circulation to BMA (4 April - 13 June 1971) and San Francisco Museum of Art [as collection of Michael and Sarah Stein] (15 September - 31 October 1971).
Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborgs, Sweden, "Pablo Picasso: The Acrobat Family," August 4- November 30, 2006, no. 15, p. 130, ill. p. 56.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure," August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
BMA, "Picasso: the Museum Collection," 11 July - 27 August 1989.
BMA, Cone Galleries rotation (installation #6), 1 February - 1 July 1988.
BMA, ''Sketches and Sketchbook Pages'', April 25-June 25, 1978.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 16, 1970-March 1, 1971, p. 165; modified circulation to BMA (4 April - 13 June 1971) and San Francisco Museum of Art [as collection of Michael and Sarah Stein] (15 September - 31 October 1971).
"Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland, " Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, no. 102d.
Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso, Vol. XXII," Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1970, no. 126.
"The Cone Collection. " rev. ed., Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, no. 303.
Denys Sutton and Paolo Lecaldano, "The Complete Paintings of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods," London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1971, no. 209, ill.
Victor I. Carlson, "Picasso: Drawings and Watercolors, 1899-1907 in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976, cat. 11.
Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds., "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde," San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011.
