About this artwork
The subject of this portrait is likely Germaine Gargallo (1880–1948). When she refused the marriage proposal of Picasso’s friend and roommate, Carles Casagemas (1880–1901), tragedy followed. In a drunken rage, Casagemas shot Gargallo in the head (grazing her temple), and then turned the gun on himself. His death and Picasso’s resulting grief led, in part, to the artist’s Blue Period, which explored themes of despair and isolation.
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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
- Young Woman with a Hat
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1900
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Medium
- Pastel, with stumping and incising, over touches of charcoal, on gray millboard, laid down on tan cardboard, fixed
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Dimensions
- 36.5 × 27 cm (14 3/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
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Reference Number
- 1954.319
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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