Pablo Picasso 15-503135 (IMAGE)

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Pablo Picasso 15-503135

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Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme, Mougins, fin 1962, fer, tôle, sculpture, peint, Musée national Picasso - Paris, (C) RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris), (C) Succession Picasso 2018 In its study of "Head of a Woman," a research team from the Musée national Picasso-Paris and the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS) is the first to report the use of the precious metal silver to render the details of the hair, eyes and other facial features on the cast-iron sheet, polychrome sculpture. The artist's second wife, Jacqueline Roque, inspired the piece.

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Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme, Mougins, fin 1962, fer, tôle, sculpture, peint, Musée national Picasso - Paris, (C) RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris), (C) Succession Picasso 2018

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