About this artwork
Among the most iconic subjects in Picasso’s art at this time was Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909–1977). Their affair began in 1927 while Picasso was still with his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, and continued for decades; Picasso frequently focused on the sensual and athletic aspects of her body in his imagery. He conveyed Walter’s classical features in this lithograph, initially created for the frontispiece of a book and then later issued on its own. Walter described their first encounter: “He took me to his studio. He looked at me, he seduced me. He kept looking at my face. When I left he said, ‘Come back tomorrow.’ And then afterwards it was always ‘tomorrow.’”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Pablo Picasso
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Title
- Face of Marie-Thérèse
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1928
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Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory Japanese paper
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Dimensions
- Sheet: 44.3 × 33 cm (17 1/2 × 13 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
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Reference Number
- 1952.1189
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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