Femme, from Picasso Oeuvres 1920-1926

An uncommon print, Femme distills Picasso’s quintessential subject to intimate scale and especially charming terms. In style it is located precisely at the artist’s transition from later, Synthetic Cubism to the newly integrated figuration, and threshold classicism, of his so-called Surrealist period. It also contains one of the very first appearances of the head rendered as a profile within a frontal view, which would become one of the artist’s most famous motifs