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Series Title: The Saltimbanques

Head of a Woman: Madeleine

1905, printed 1913

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
printer

Louis Fort

(French, active 1800s–1900s)
publisher

Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1867–1939)
Culture
Spain, 20th century
Medium
etching
Measurements
Image: 11.4 x 8.4 cm (4 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.); Plate: 11.8 x 8.6 cm (4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.); Sheet: 50.5 x 33.1 cm (19 7/8 x 13 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.889
Catalogue raisonné
Geiser/Baer I.21.3; Bloch 2
State
Ib(2)/I (Geiser/Baer)
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Although she worked as an artist's model, little else is known about the figure of Madeleine.
A vertically oriented drawing in black ink with streaking, cross-hatched lines depicts a woman with light skin tone from the shoulders up, facing us and tilting her head down toward her right shoulder. Her dark hair wraps in a loose bun at the top of her head. Straight lines streaking down shade the right side of her face and swirling patterns of straight lines her hair, occasionally hatched, but the most frenetic hatching shading the background.

Head of a Woman: Madeleine

1905, printed 1913

Pablo Picasso, Louis Fort, Ambroise Vollard

(Spanish, 1881–1973), (French, active 1800s–1900s), (French, 1867–1939)
Spain, 20th century

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