Head of a Woman (Fernande Olivier)
Date
(1909)/(cast 1960)
Artist
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, b. Málaga, 1881–1973
Provenance
[Heinz Berggruen, Paris, 1960]
M. Knoedler, New York, to 11 March 1961
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 11 March 1961-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
OTTO GERSON GALLERY, New York. "Picasso: An American Tribute," (Public Education Association), 25 April-12 May 1962, no. 12, ill.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 368, ill. pp. 57, 85.
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. "Art Since 1889," 20 October-15 November 1964, no. 85, ill. p. 21.
[MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston. "The Heroic Years: Paris 1908-1914," 20 October-8 December 1965.]
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "Futurism and the International Avant-Garde," 24 October 1980-4 January 1981, no. 109, ill.
ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM, Edinburgh. "Treasure of the Smithsonian," 11 August-4 October 1984.
Published References
READ, HERBERT. A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (New York: Praeger, 1964), no. 54, pp. 66-67, 301, ill. p. 60.
MICHELSON, ANNETTE. "Private but Public: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," Contemporary Sculpture Arts Yearbook 8 (New York; Art Digest, 1965), p. 188.
HALE, WILLIAM HARLAN. The World of Rodin 1840-1917 (New York: Time-Life Books, 1969), ill. p. 176.
SPIES, WERNER. Picasso Sculpture (London: Thames & Husdon, 1971): no. 24, ill. pp. 42-43, p. 302
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 733, ill. 179.
MERILLAT, HERBERT CHRISTIAN. Modern Sculpture: The New Old Masters (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1974), pp. 15, 43, ill. p. 48.
R[OBERTS], K[EITH]. "Acquisitions of Modern Art by Museums," Burlington Magazine 116/860 (November 1974), p. 702, fig. 110.
HUDSON, ANDREW. "Washington Letter," Art International 19/6 (15 June 1975), p. 108.
MARTIN, DAVID F. Sculpture and Enlivened Space: Aesthetics and History (University Press of Kentucky, 1981), ill. 38, p. 110.
PARK, EDWARDS. Treasures of the Smithsonian (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 1983), ill. 173, pp. 174-75.
GOLDING, JOHN. Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (London: Tate Gallery, 1985?), ill. 13, pp. 17-18 (reprint of 1972 edition published by Newcastle-upon Tyne).
MARTINEZ, BENJAMIN and JACQUELINE BLOCK. Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design 2nd ed. (New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs/Prentice Hall, 1995), fig. E, p. 177.
MCALLISTER, JANE, ed. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1996), p. 23.
FLETCHER, VALERIE J. Cubist Sculpture (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), permanent exhibition brochure.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 25, p. 50.
See more items in
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Spanish Modernism
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.4050
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
16 3/8 × 9 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (41.7 × 24.9 × 26.7 cm)
