736. PABLO PICASSO. Tête de Femme, de Profile (from: La Suite des Saltimbanques).

Drypoint, 1905, from the small edition of 27 or 29 on Japan paper (there were also an edition of 250 on Van Gelder Zonen paper), printed by Louis Fort and published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris 1913, with full margins.
P. 29.1 x 25 cm.
S. 40 x 54.8 cm.

PROVENANCE: Galerie R.-G. Michel, 17 quai Saint Michel, Paris.
Gallery Nordqvist, Malmö. Acquired from above, 1950 (425 kr), thence by descent.

LITERATURA:
Bloch 6.

Dit is een van de eerste prijzen gemaakt door Picasso, en is een portraiture van een vrouw bekend als Madeleine, een artiste's model en Picasso's lover during his early years in Paris. She appears in some of his Blue period and Rose period works. This represents the latter, when his compositions became dreamlike and allegorical.