Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Bust of a Woman or Sailor (study for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Bust of a Woman or Sailor (study for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon)
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
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Location:
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repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP15
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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1907 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on cardboard
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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53.5 cm (height) x 36.2 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; portrait; Masks; study; oil sketch
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Description:
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Painted in Paris in the Spring of 1907. The simplified forms, eyes that read as voids and nose ridge with striations on the side recalls the African masks that inspired Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. (Source: Le Fur, Yves, ed.; Through the Eyes of Picasso: Face to Face with African and Oceanic Art, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2017 (978-2-08-020319-9))
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-BOWS-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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