Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Woman with a Mantilla
Image View:
Detail, head and torso, from the front
Creator:
Pablo Picasso (Spanish ceramicist, 1881-1973)
Location:
repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP3695
Location Note:
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date:
1949 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
ceramics (object genre)
Work Type 2:
figurine
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
white clay, painted with red and black slip
Technique:
modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques; throwing (pottery technique)
Measurements:
47 cm (height) x 12.5 cm (width) x 9.5 cm (depth)
Subjects:
abstraction; human figure; Spanish costume
Description:
Created in Vallauris, 1949. The figurine is partially wheel-thrown with white clay, then modeled and painted with red and black clay slip. (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))
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-WM -A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Woman with a Mantilla