736. PABLO PICASSO. Tête de Femme, de Profil (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.
Galleri Nordqvist, Malmö. Acquired from the above, 1950 (425 kr), thence by descent.

LITERATURE:
Bloch 6.

This is one of the earliest prints created by Picasso, and is a portrait of a woman known only as Madeleine, an artist's model and Picasso's lover during his early years in Paris. She appears in certain of his Blue period and Rose period works. This represents the latter, when his compositions became dreamlike and allegorical.