Visage de Marie-Thérèse, 1928
signed in red crayon
lithograph, on Japan paper
48.6 x 30.5cm (19 1/8 x 12in).
This work is a proof aside from the edition of 75, printed by Marchizet, published by Galerie Percier, Paris

Footnotes

Literature
Georges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié, Volume I, 1904-1967, Berne, 1968 (Bl.95).
Geiser & Baer, Picasso Peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Volume I, 1899-1931, Berne, 1990 (B.243.c.3.).
Fernand Mourlot, Picasso Lithographs, Paris, 1970 (M.XXIII).
Patrick Cramer, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1983 (CR.16).

Picasso met Marie-Thérèse Walter outside a Parisian department store in 1927. He famously said to her "Mademoiselle, you have an interesting face. I would like to make your portrait, I'm sure we will do great things together, I'm Picasso". She soon became his muse and mistress and Picasso, invigorated by this new relationship, began an intense period of new work.

This is one of Picasso's earliest images of her, although he did not divulge the identity of the model at the time, wishing to keep the beginning of their affair a secret. Therefore, the work was known simply as Visage. The keenly observed features, tender handling and close cropping convey a sense of intimacy and intensity, as if the viewer is being allowed into the secret.

This marks an early success for the artist in the technique of lithography, where the softly drawn lines give a sense of delicacy to her sculptural features.

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