Woman Standing with One Arm behind Her Head
Pablo Picasso
1922
- Medium
- Graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 34.3 × 23.9 cm (13 9/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
Cubismdrawings (visual works)graphiteprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)wove paper
About
Scholars have long thought that this drawing depicts Picasso’s first wife, the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova (1891–1955). Drawn the year after the birth of their son Paulo, the robed figure appears as if she is a statue come to life. Although the two remained married until Khokhlova’s death in 1955, they separated in 1935 because of Picasso’s infidelities.
