Woman's Head

Pablo Picasso · early 1908

You're looking at Woman's Head — a painting by Picasso, early nineteen oh eight. Oil on canvas — about 74 by 61 centimeters. It is among the darkest surfaces here: measured across the whole picture it gives back very little light. You can pick out the portrait of a person.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 29 x 23 7/8" (73.6 x 60.6 cm) · Credit Florene May Schoenborn Bequest

Hanging beside it in Gallery 502: Repose, Study for Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, Self-Portrait I, Portrait of Maria Lani, Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, Portrait of Mme Zamaron, Young Man in a Gray Sweater (Jacques Lipchitz)

More by Pablo Picasso here: She-Goat, Goat Skull and Bottle, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Boy Leading a Horse, Two Nudes, Woman Plaiting Her Hair