Femme se coiffant

细节

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Femme se coiffant
signed 'Picasso' (on the left leg)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 16¼ in. (41.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1905-1906; this bronze version cast by Ambroise Vollard by 1939

来源

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Lucien Vollard, Paris, by descent from the above.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above in 1948.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 23 June 2000, lot 117.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

出版

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. I, Paris, 1932, no. 329 (another cast illustrated p. 153; titled 'La coiffure', dated '1905').
U. E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard Editeur, New York, 1977, no. 229.
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso, The Early Years 1881-1907, New York, 1981, no. 1364 (another cast illustrated).
W. Spies, Picasso, Das plastische Werk, Stuttgart, 1983, no. 7 (another cast illustrated pp. 27 and 326).
W. Spies, Picasso Sculpteur, Paris, 2000, no. 7 (another cast illustrated pp. 33 and 346).
W. Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000, no. 7 (another cast illustrated pp. 33 and 346).

注意事项

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拍品专文

Working in Paris during the summer of 1906, Picasso started to develop the theme of a woman dressing her hair. Standing nudes sensually holding up their hair or allowing it to fall loosely to one side of the shoulder were frequently depicted in drawings of the time (J. Palau i Fabre, op. cit., nos. 1355-1360). Picasso continued to explore this theme, developing it further into a seated nude and subsequently into a kneeling woman braiding her hair.

Fernande Olivier, Picasso's mistress and primary model at the time, is almost certainly the model for this kneeling figure allowing her hair to fall loosely down at her side. Femme se coiffant is one of the most striking examples of a direct link between the sculpture of Paul Gauguin and that of Picasso who had visited the Gauguin retrospective at the Salon d'Automne in 1906. The Spanish artist was undoubtedly taken with Gauguin's sculpture Oviri, a figure imbued with the mysticism of the jungle. As John Richardson has written, "There is a slight Iberian look to this figure, but Oviri and her ceramic prototypes...are the main sources for Fernande's air of mystery. For the first time, we get an inkling of what Picasso meant when he said that his sculptures were vials filled with his own blood" (op. cit. , p. 461).