Pablo Picasso
La Coiffure
1904
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Pablo Picasso
La Coiffure
1904
Physical Qualities
Oil and charcoal on canvas, Unframed: 32 1/8 × 25 3/4 in. (81.6 × 65.4 cm.)
Framed: 42 7/8 × 36 1/4 × 4 1/8 in. (108.9 × 92.1 × 10.5 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.269
In the early 1900s, Pablo Picasso began to explore the subject of women having their hair dressed or combing it themselves. Here, only the hands of the attendant are in view, first drawn in charcoal and then modeled with light-colored paint, adding a layer of mystery to the scene. At the time, Picasso was interested in depicting figures with curves and volume, which marked a change from his earlier interest in thin, androgynous sitters.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, acquired after 1934; Paul Rosenberg, 1932; Collection Saint, 1928.
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André Level, "Picasso," Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie, 1928, p. 55, no. 11, ill.
Tableaux Modernes, Aquarelles, Pastels, Dessins, par Boudin, Corot, Courbet, Cross, Degas, Derain, R. Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Jongkind, Henri-Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Renoir, Rouault, Seurat, Soutine, Utrillo, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 25, 1932, cat. no. 92, p. 27, ill. no. 92. (Published as "Femme se faisant coiffer")
Charles Vrancken, "Exposition Picasso," Paris: Galeries Georges Petit, 1932, p. 20, no. 34.
Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906, vol. 1," Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1932, p. XLVIII. no. 309, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941, pp. 85-86. (Published as "The Coiffure")
George Boas, Adelyn D. Breeskin and J.G. D'Arcy Paul, "Selections from the Cone Collection," "News of the Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1949, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 19. (Published as "The Coiffure")
Clive Bell, "Modern French Painting: The Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1951, pp. 8-9, 14.
Maurice Gieure, "Initiation à l'Oeuvre de Picasso," Paris: Éditions des Deux Mondes, 1951, p. 332, no. 12, ill.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, pp. 37, 41, no. 84, ill. (Published as "The Coiffure")
Howard Devree, "About Art and Artists: Works by Matisse, Picasso and Others From Cone Collection Displayed," "The New York Times," January 25, 1955, p. 23. (Published as "The Coiffure")
Leslie Judd Portner, "Baltimore Museum Opens New Cone Wing," "The Christian Science Monitor," March 23, 1957, p. 10. (Published as "The Coiffure")
Leslie Judd Portner, "Worthy Home for Cone Collection," "The Washington Post and Times Herald," August 25, 1957, p. E7.
Barbara Pollack, "The Collectors: D. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone," Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1962, p. 173, ill.
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, "Picasso The Blue and Rose Periods, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1900-1906," Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1966, p. 275, no. XIII 3, ill.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 28, 68, no. 80, ill. (Published as "The Coiffure")
Paolo Lecaldano and Alberto Moravia, "L'Opera Completa di Picasso Blu e Rosa," Milan: Rizzoli, 1968, p. 103, no. 202, ill. (Published as "La Pettinatura")
The Museum of Modern Art, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970, p. 85
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, pp. 40, 108, 109, 202, pp. 40, 108, ill
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, "Picasso 1900-1906, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint," Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Editions Ides and Calendes, 1988, p. 275, no. XIII.3, ill.
Brigitte Léal, "Carnets: Catalogue des Dessins, vol. 1," Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996, p. 78, fig. 18, ill.
Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts, "Frameworks: Form, Function & Ornament in European Portrait Frames," London: Paul Mitchell Limited, 1996, pp. 245-246, no. 191, ill.
Nobuyuki Senzoku and Akira Tomita, "Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: Brain Trust Inc., 1996, pp. 37, 145, fig. 19, ill.
Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Part I, Christie's, New York, POGANY-8648, May 14, 1997, lot. No. 44, p. 129, fig. 4, ill.
Charles Darwent, "Double Vision," "The Independent," June 17, 2001, p. 21.
Jay Fisher, "Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone: A Collection of Modern Art for Baltimore," in Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, ed., "Before Peggy Guggenheim: American Woman Art Collectors," Venice: Marsilio, 2001, p. 124.
"Picasso's Marie-Thérèse," New York: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 2008, p. 25, fig. 12, ill.
Ellen B. Hirschland and Nancy Hirschland Ramage, "The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt," Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008, pp. 221, 278, fig. 8, ill.
Dianne Sachko Macleod, "Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940," Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, pp. 202- 203, 305, fig. 79, ill.
Tobia Bezzola, "Picasso His First Museum Exhibition 1932," New York: Prestel, 2010, pp. 87, 197, 214, fig. 9, cat. no. 30, ill. (Published as "La Coiffure" and "Frau beim Frisleren"
Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall, "Picasso Looks at Degas," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, pp. 170-171, 177, 349, fig. 192, ill.
Inscribed: Recto: Lower right in black paint, "Picasso" Verso: Top center in graphite, "Cat.73/PV-6-" Top right and bottom left canvas, black circular stamp, "DOUANES/PARIS/EXPOSITION" Lower left, black circular stamp, "DOUANES/_____/UAS/____TRALE" Top vertical stretcher, white label with a red border in black ink, "8852/Picasso" Top vertical stretcher in blue pencil, "PH 3056" Middle of vertical stretcher, browned label, printed text, "GALERIES GEORGES PETIT/8, Rue de Sèze-PARIS/Exposition PABLO PICASSO/JUIN 1932 lw" Middle vertical stretcher in graphite, "N°2" Top of vertical stretcher in graphite, "3056" Frame Inscriptions Verso: Middle of left rail in white paint, "81-65" Bottom left rail in white paint, "831" Bottom left rail in graphite, "PI" Bottom right rail, upside down in graphite, "R" Center of bottom rail, white oval stamp, black print, "J. CHENUE/FRENCH PACKER/10GT. ST. ANDREW STREET/Shaftesbury Avenue/LONDON W-C2" Left on bottom rail, square white label with a navy border in dark ink, "Picasso _____ of Sept/Deliver W Chenue for/Miss Etta Cone/1701 Marlborough Apts/Eutaw Place/Baltimore M.D./USA"
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