Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1926
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Unframed: 21.6 x 14 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Style
Surrealist-influenced modernism
Decade
1920s
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Head (Tête) as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1926, in oil on canvas. The woman’s head in this painting contains multiple perspectives, most notably seen in the opposing profiles formed by the red and tan forms in the center, each with its own eye. A third eye appears on the left side of the face which can be read as a frontal view. While the woman’s features resemble those of Picasso’s lover, Marie Thérèse Walter, she was probably not the model since they did not meet until January 1927. The contrast in style between this painting and Picasso’s <em>Head of a Boy</em> (1905–6) is a testament to the artist’s boundless creativity.
Head (Tête) is grouped here under Surrealist Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
* Estimates are based on comparable auction results and market analysis. Not a formal appraisal.
Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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