Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Bust of a Smiling Woman
Alternate Title:
Buste de femme souriante
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) DO02081
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1901 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Spanish
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on cardboard mounted on board
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
83.5 cm (height) x 60.5 cm (width)
Subjects:
portrait; costume
Description:
During the first five months of 1901, Picasso lived in Madrid, where he and his anarchist friend Francisco de Asís Soler founded the magazine Arte Joven (Young Art), which published five issues. Pío Baroja commented "When he was in Madrid, Pablo Picasso had taken a studio near the Calle Zurbano, where he spent his time painting women from memory with a certain Parisian air, and round, rosebud mouths. Picasso was a keen-eyed man, with an ironic, mocking smile." (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PICASSO-SRS-BSM- A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Bust of a Smiling Woman