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Fine art by Pablo Picasso portrait by
Pablo Picasso titled Woman with a Hairnet (French: La Femme à la résille), created in 1949.
The artwork is a color lithograph that depicts one of Picasso's significant muses, Françoise Gilot, with whom he had a decade-long relationship.
Artistic Details
Composition: The work is notable for its bold, stylized lines and a rhythmic, geometric "hairnet" that acts as a veil, blending classical portraiture with postwar abstraction.
Technique: Picasso produced this lithograph during a period of intense experimentation with the medium, collaborating closely with master printer Fernand Mourlot at Atelier Mourlot in Paris.
Identification: The original edition was limited to 50 signed and numbered impressions, printed on Arches wove paper.
Museum Collections
This specific work is held in the collections of several prestigious institutions, including:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Detroit Institute of Arts
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark)
The National Museum of Western Art (Japan) |
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