Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Tête de femme (Fernande)
bronze with dark brown patina
6 ½ x 4 in. (16.5 x 10.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1906; this bronze version cast circa 1920
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Tête de femme (Fernande)
bronze with dark brown patina
6 ½ x 4 in. (16.5 x 10.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1906; this bronze version cast circa 1920
Maurice Raynal, Paris (gift from the artist, circa 1920).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
M. Raynal, Picasso, Paris, 1922 (another cast illustrated, pl. 58; dated 1905).
W. Spies, Sculpture by Picasso, with a Catalogue of the Works, New York, 1971, pp. 18-19 and 301, no. 8 (copper version illustrated, p. 273).
R. Johnson, The Early Sculpture of Picasso, 1901-1914, New York, 1976, no. 9 (other casts illustrated, p. 212, nos. 47-48).
W. Spies, Picasso, Das Plastische Werk, Stuttgart, 1983, p. 372, no. 8 (copper version illustrated, p. 326).
W. Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000, p. 394, no. 8 (copper version illustrated, p. 346).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Rose Period, 1905-1906, San Francisco, 2012, p. 320, no. 1906-522 (original copper version and another cast illustrated).
Specialist note
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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