Buste de femme

by Pablo Picasso

Artist Pablo Picasso (Spanien, 1881 - 1973)

Alternate Title

Bust of a Woman
Kvinnobyst

Date1907

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsBildmått: 54 × 41 cm Ram: 84,5 × 70 × 5,5 cm

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchase 1964 (The Museum of Our Wishes)

Countries

Spain

On view

Stockholm

RoomGallery 01:16

Object NumberNM 5770

CollectionsThe Museum of Our Wishes

About the artworkPicasso was an academically-trained artist and had mastered classical painting at an early age. In the years after 1900s, he was restlessly searching for new forms of expression without departing from traditional painting. After an artistic crisis and encountering African masks and Iberian sculptures, he created a large number of works in 1907 that paved the way for cubism. His monumental canvas “The Girls of Avignon” from that year, and the studies he made for that painting, marked a clean break with the prevailing canon. Depiction and idealisation were gone, and the lack of an organising, detached one-point perspective gave motifs such as “Bust of a Woman” a powerful impact. The woman and the background seem to have been whipped up with strong brush strokes that bring the flat surface to life.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks På baksidan i svart NM 5770, På baksidan en rad etiketter. Bl a en grå, - 165 Pablo Picasso, feb 1881 Selected exhibition history Pablo Picasso - Från Arkadiens sorglöshet till målad exorcism (den 6 juni 2014 - den 24 augusti 2014) Moderna Museet Malmö Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den tidiga modernismen: 1900-1920 ur Moderna Museets samling (den 19 mars 2011 - den 2 oktober 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Picasso och Medelhavets myter (1997) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den tredje handen. Maurizio Cattelan och Moderna Museets samling (den 24 februari 2024 - den 12 januari 2025) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Scenbyte: verk ur Moderna Museets Samling av Dardel, Matisse, Abdul-Hadi, Hjertén och Léger m.fl. (den 15 oktober 2011 - den 5 februari 2012) Moderna Museet Malmö Picasso/Duchamp "He was wrong" (den 25 augusti 2012 - den 3 mars 2013) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Picasso och Medelhavets myter : [Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna 15/2 - 19/5 1997]Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]Picasso/Duchamp "He was wrong" : [Moderna Museet , Stockholm 25/8 2012-3/3 2013]

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