Picasso, Pablo, Large Woman’s Head with Ornamented Hat, 1962

1962

Original two-colour linocut on Arches paper

75.2 x 62.2 cm

Unsigned

Arnéra print; Galerie Louise Leiris éditeur, Paris 1963

Catalogue raisonné: Bloch 1077; Baer 1317: Grande tête de Jacqueline au chapeau

© Succession Picasso 2025

Each time he tried a new technique, Picasso demonstrated particularly rewarding innovations. In Grande tête de femme au chapeau orné, the fine parallel stripes in ochre-pink that create a sense of material, akin to marquetry, result from the artist’s use of a horse currycomb, like a scraper.