Visage (Marie-Thérèse Walter)

Former TitleFace (Visage)

Artist Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973)

Date1928

MediumLithograph

DimensionsImage: 8 x 5 5/8 inches (20.32 x 14.29 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Thomas K. Baker

Object number73-1

Signed(b.m., pencil):"144/200 Picasso"

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Exhibition History

The Art of Book Illustration: Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 13-January 8, 1994-1995.

Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998.

The Feminine Mystique: Portraits of and by Women, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 27-October 8, 2006.

Bonjour Picasso, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 22-February 11, 2012-2013.

World War I and the Rise of Modernism, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 9-October 18, 2015.

Through the Eyes of Picasso, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France, March 28-July 23, 2017; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 13-April 8, 2017-2018; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 7-September 16, 2018.

Gallery Label

Picasso met the woman in this print, Marie-Thérèse Walter, in 1927. She was 17, he was 45. Their daughter Maya was born in 1935. Blond and youthful, Marie-Thérèse was the subject of many paintings and prints by the artist: asleep and dreaming in a red chair, gazing at her pregnant reflection in a mirror, head crowned in delicate f lowers, absorbed in reading a book. Here, Picasso presents his love closeup, capturing the refinement of her exquisite profile with the greatest of care.

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