La Coiffure

Pablo Picasso, 1905

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Ink and pencil on brown sugar-wrapping paper make an everyday grooming subject feel immediate, tactile, and materially inventive. Picasso's choice of ink and pencil on brown paper sugar wrapping shapes how the subject is encountered: the material, scale, and method are not incidental but part of the artwork's visual argument. The record is held by Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, whose direct object page verifies the canonical title, date, medium, dimensions, and collection attribution. This catalog entry therefore distinguishes documented facts from interpretive reading and directs visitors to the institutional record for further research.

MoMA's record makes the unusual brown-paper support integral to the work's identity and confirms its 1905 Rose Period date. The work belongs in a broader account of Picasso's sustained shifts among drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture rather than in a simplified single-style narrative. Its museum object number and rights statement allow the gallery to provide reliable scholarship without presenting an unlicensed reproduction as if it were freely reusable. The site will retain the official collection link as the authoritative factual reference and use a rights-aware fallback for the image display.

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