©Pablo Picasso - Head of a Woman 1903

Picasso Head of a Woman 1903
Head of a Woman
1903 40x35cm Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
This exquisite portrait was made in Barcelona, where Picasso lived from January 1903 to March 1904 in the studio on Calle Riera de San Juan that he had shared three years before with his late friend Carles Casagemas. The model is thought to be the twenty-year-old Parisian doll dressmaker Cécile Acker, also known as Geneviève (or Germaine) Pfeipher. A lover of the poet Max Jacob, she may also have had a liaison with Picasso. Picasso painted this work over a landscape signed by a painter named González, presumably Joan González, the older brother of the sculptor Julio González.