Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1933 (published 1939)
Medium
etching and sugarlift on vergé de Montval laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 37.6 x 29.3 cm (14 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 49.6 x 38.2 cm (19 1/2 x 15 1/16 in.)
Style
Surrealist-influenced modernism
Decade
1930s
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Woman Leaning on Her Elbow, Back of Sculpture, and Bearded Head as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1933 (published 1939), in etching and sugarlift on vergé de Montval laid paper. This print belongs to a series of 100 that the dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned from Picasso during the 1930s. Picasso worked with master printer Roger Lacourière, experimenting with a range of etching techniques. Many of the prints, such as this one, feature a stark, linear style evocative of classical art that Picasso favored during this period. Here, a nude sculpture and heavily bearded face further suggest ancient Greece.
Woman Leaning on Her Elbow, Back of Sculpture, and Bearded Head is grouped here under Surrealist Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
* Estimates are based on comparable auction results and market analysis. Not a formal appraisal.
Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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