Female Head with Necklace
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Image Code: PP17
- Date of Work: 1962
- Medium: Linoleum Cuts
- Suite: Bacchanals Women Bulls & Bullfighters
- Printed by: Harry N. Abrams
About the work
Between 1958 and 1961 Picasso made many linocuts, a process that he found hugely stimulating.
The enormous body of Picasso's work remains and the legend lives on a tribute to the vitality o...show more
About the artist
Pablo Picasso is the most famous, versatile, prolific and influential artist of the 20th Century. It was something that he wasn’t shy in acknowledging: When he was a child Picasso’s mother said to him: “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope. ” To which he later said: “Instead, I was a painter and became Picasso. ” Although he lived the majority of his adult years in France, Picasso was a Spaniard by birth, hailing from the town of Malaga in Andalusia. His father was an Artist in his own right earning a living painting birds and other game animals. Picasso was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer and writer. His work matured from the naturalism of his childhood through Cubism, Surrealism and beyo ...show more
About the process
Linocut
A linocut is made using a sheet of thick linoleum or a wooden block and is a bold and graphic style of artwork.
A v-shaped knife or tool is used to carve the design in to the...show more
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53cm x 58cm / 21" x 23"
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