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Pablo Picasso
Woman Crying Before a Wall1937

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Etching or drypoint portrait of a head rendered in fragmented, expressionistic lines, with a heavily inked black background and angular facial planes
Monochrome print of a fragmented human head in near-frontal view, rendered in white against a dark background with energetic scratched lines and angular, fractured planes.

Pablo Picasso, Woman Crying Before a Wall, 1937, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Graphic Arts Council Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Pablo Picasso
Spain, 1881-1973, active France
Title
Woman Crying Before a Wall
Place Made
Spain
Date Made
1937
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and scraper
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 15 in. (50.17 × 38.1 cm) Image: 13 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (34.61 × 24.45 cm)
Credit Line
Graphic Arts Council Fund
Accession Number
M.89.125
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso: Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie. Bern: Kornfeld and Klipstein, 1963.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992, vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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