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Pablo Picasso, early 1901
Technical Details
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Framed: 92.4 x 69.9 x 7.9 cm (36 3/8 x 27 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 73 x 50.2 cm (28 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
Style
Blue Period figuration
Decade
1900s
About This Work
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Woman with a Cape as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated early 1901, in oil on canvas. Pablo Picasso created this portrait of an artist’s model named Jeanne in the spring of 1901 when he was 20 years old, in preparation for his first exhibition in Paris held at the Galerie Vollard where he displayed more than 65 paintings and drawings. The bold brushwork and lively palette in works such as Woman with a Cape were noted by a contemporary critic who described Picasso’s style as “lively, precocious.”
Woman with a Cape is grouped here under Blue 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.
Current Location
Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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