Weeping Woman in Front of a Wall

Pablo Picasso|Jacques Frélaut|Galerie Louise Leiris

1937, printed 1961 · Aquatint and drypoint · Drawings and Prints

Picasso executed close to sixty pictures of weeping women between January and November 1937. Many of them served a preparatory drawings for his monumental antiwar mural, Guernica (Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid), although, surprisingly, there are no individual weeping women in the final version of the painting. Even after the completion of Guernica, Picasso continued to explore the theme in several paintings, drawings, and etchings. He depicts this sorrowful woman in a Spanish mantilla standing before a wall. He used a took known as a scraper to create the many marks on her tormented face and to emphasize the gashlike tears streaming from her eyes.

Artist

Pablo Picasso|Jacques Frélaut|Galerie Louise Leiris

Date

1937, printed 1961

Medium

Aquatint and drypoint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Reiss-Cohen Inc., 1983