Woman's Head

Pablo Picasso, early 1908

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A close-cropped female head is built from simplified planes and firm outlines, giving the figure the gravity of a sculptural study rather than a conventional likeness. Picasso's choice of oil on canvas shapes how the subject is encountered: the material, scale, and method are not incidental but part of the artwork's visual argument. The record is held by Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, whose direct object page verifies the canonical title, date, medium, dimensions, and collection attribution. This catalog entry therefore distinguishes documented facts from interpretive reading and directs visitors to the institutional record for further research.

MoMA dates the work to early 1908, a crucial transition in Picasso's movement from post-Rose figuration toward the structural experiments that fed into Cubism. The work belongs in a broader account of Picasso's sustained shifts among drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture rather than in a simplified single-style narrative. Its museum object number and rights statement allow the gallery to provide reliable scholarship without presenting an unlicensed reproduction as if it were freely reusable. The site will retain the official collection link as the authoritative factual reference and use a rights-aware fallback for the image display.

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