Picasso the Sculptor - ACE017.4

Ceramic Chouette (1949). Photograph of Picasso holding two clay birds. Group of five clay doves including Colombe (1953) and Colombe aux œufs (1953). Cruche (1950), together with a vulture. Chouette en colère (1950-1953) and another small owl. Vase à deux anses décoré d’une tête de faune et d’une chouette (1961). Painted sheet-metal owl. Various sheet-metal women’s head from late 1950s and early 1960s including Tête de femme (1962). Various etiolated wooden Femme debout and Femme assise, all from 1930. Metal trumpet player and another male figure. More sheet-metal heads including Head of a Woman (1961). Centaure (1950) and Femme couronnée de fleurs (1954). Three painted ceramic figures including Bouteille: Femme agenouillée (1950). Vase: femme (1949), Vase: femme à la mantille (1949), and Femme debout (1949). Tête de femme à la résille (1948-1950) and Grande tête (1950). A bronze head. Commentary talks about Picasso’s ability "to invent new versions of anatomy": Head of a Man / Tête d’homme (1930); La Femme au jardin; a 1931 Buste de femme. Bronze heads. Head of a Baigneuse (1931-1932). A Visage (1931-1932). Tête de femme (1951) alongside another bronze woman’s head. More sheet-metal heads. The 1967 Tête, a head "drawn in space. More sheet-metal heads, several painted in bright colours. Tête de femme (1962) (painted tile) and Fragment of Brick Decorated with the Face of a Woman / Fragment de brique décoré d’un visage de femme (1962). General view of several painted tiles, etc. Credits over sheet-metal falcon.