Head of a Woman in Profile (Jacqueline)

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Head of a Woman in Profile (Jacqueline)

France, 1970
Paintings
Oil on canvas
48 5/8 × 35 in. (123.51 × 88.9 cm)
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof (M.2005.70.115)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Provenance

Studio of the artist (1881-1973); by inheritance to the Picasso Family; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1997 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.

Label

The two paintings on view in this gallery of Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque, demonstrate what art historian Pepe Karmel has described as the artist’s “ability to make a fundamentally black-an...
The two paintings on view in this gallery of Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque, demonstrate what art historian Pepe Karmel has described as the artist’s “ability to make a fundamentally black-and-white composition seem as rich and sensual as a brightly colored one.” With the dynamic, gestural composition of this work and the double face in Head of a Woman (Jacqueline), the paintings also suggest subtly layered aspects of Roque’s personality. The couple met in Cannes in 1952, and married in 1961; Roque provided steadfast support in the twenty years until Picasso’s death in 1973. Her distinctive large eyes, dark brows, and straight nose dominated the artist’s oeuvre in that period, making her the most sustained subject in his work.

Wall label, 2021.
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Bibliography

  • Zervos, Christian.  Pablo Picasso.  Paris: Cahiers d'art.
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.