In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
At the Theater (The Courtesan)
Woman Seated on Striped Floor
Still Life with Basket of Fruit and Jug
Child Seated in an Armchair (Enfant assis dans un fauteuil)
Standing Nude in Front of a Red Arch
Young Woman Holding a Cigarette (Jeune femme tenant une ciga
The Ascetic (L' Ascète)
Composition: The PeasantsFROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Head of a Woman is often invoked as a canonical example of Picasso's simplified and "Africanized" forms. While on some occasions the artist did point to "geometric simplicity" as well as "sublime beauty" as underpinning his interest in African sculpture, on others, he denied any visual influence altogether. Most consistently, he declared his passionate affinity for the power he perceived in African ritual objects: "the masks weren't like other kinds of sculpture," he stated in 1937. "They were magical things." Perhaps Picasso would have connected the qualities that imbue this painting—the densely lathered background, vigorous strokes, and pops of yellow and blue that emerge from lower paint layers—with the vitality of African art.
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Alexej von Jawlensky — The Young Christ
Alexej von Jawlensky — Mystical Head: Andrej
Afro — The Novice (Il novizio)
Marsden Hartley — Movement, Bermuda
Henri Matisse — Still Life with Gourds (Nature morte aux col
Amedeo Modigliani — Café Singer
Amedeo Modigliani — Portrait of Beatrice Hastings
Amedeo Modigliani — Pink Nude—Caryatid (recto); Caryatid (ve
Max Pechstein (German, 1881–1955) — Head of a Fisherman
Amedeo Modigliani — Madame Hanka Zborowska Leaning on a Chai
Amedeo Modigliani — Girl with a Polka-Dot Blouse (Jeune fill
Louis Marcoussis — Glass and Fruit (Verre et fruits)