About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
written by Ovid (Italian, 43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
printed by Louis Fort (French, 19th-20th centuries)
published by Albert Skira (Swiss, 1904-1973)

Heads of a Bearded Man and of a Veiled Woman, from Les Métamorphoses, 1931

Etching on ivory Japanese paper
205 x 171 mm (image); 327 x 252 mm (sheet, no plate mark)
Given in memory of A. Peter Dewey, 1946.65.15

Baer & Geiser 157 only state, b; Bloch 113; Geiser 157 only state, b

© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York