Grande tête de femme au chapeau orné

Pablo Picasso

1962

Original linocut in two colors on Arches paper

75,2 x 62,2 cm

Unsigned

Arnera print; Galerie Louise Leiris éditeur, Paris 1963

Catalog raisonné : Bloch 1077 ; Baer 1317 : Large head of Jacqueline with hat

© 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.