Portrait of Jacqueline Leaning on Her Elbows
1959
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Not on View

Images of Jacqueline Roque (1927–1986), Picasso’s second wife, dominate the final stage of the artist’s career and constitute the largest group of portraits in the Spaniard’s oeuvre. Picasso represented her visage again and again over two decades, covering a range of styles, from simply realistic to exceedingly abstract. When Picasso met Roque in 1952, the artist had just turned 70, and because of the energy required for oil painting was high, he often executed her portraits in drawings and prints. The selection shown here, created within a four-year period, points to the variety of Picasso’s artistic approaches. The bold, fractured lines and color, the classical profile pose, the reductive line drawing, the sitter’s costuming as a beloved Spanish character, the long nose and high cheekbones—all transformed through the endlessly variegated hand of the artist—serve as a summary of the constantly shifting methods Picasso employed throughout his epic eighty year career.

Details

  • Artist Name: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
  • Title: Portrait of Jacqueline Leaning on Her Elbows
  • Date: 1959
  • Medium: Linocut on Arches wove paper with watermark
  • Edition: Edition of 50, No. 14
  • Dimensions: comp: 25-1/4 x 21 in. (64.1 x 53.3 cm); sheet: 29-1/2 x 24-1/2 in. (74.9 x 62.2 cm)
  • Printer: Arnera (1960)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation, Gift of Mr. Norton Simon
  • Accession Number: M.1979.69.09.G
  • Copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Object Information

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Reality and Abstraction: Picasso's Female Portrait Studies

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1990-12-20 to 1991-05-19

Portraits by Picasso: Images of Friends, Lovers and Mentors

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1987-07-23 to 1988-05-22

Through His Eyes: The World of Pablo Picasso

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2003-12-12 to 2004-02-16

Picasso: Graphic Magician, Prints from the Norton Simon Museum

  • Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 1999-01-24 to 1999-03-28
  • Toledo Museum of Art, 1999-11-07 to 2000-01-16
  • Norton Simon Museum, 2000-04-12 to 2000-09-04

Seven Decades of Picasso

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1979-10-11 to 1980

Gaze: Portraiture After Ingres

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2009-10-30 to 2010-04-05
  • Fryberger, Betsy G. and Gloria Williams, Clinton Adams, David Carrier, and Pat Gilmour, Picasso: Graphic Magician, Prints from the Norton Simon Museum, 1998, color pl. 12 pp. 110, 153
  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 171 p. 266

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