Kunstdruck / Picasso / Limited Edition / Portrait einer Frau mit Pompon-Hut / 5 Farben / 60 x 80 cm Corrida Was that what drove these

Was that what drove these women

My grandfather

In contrast to the other pictures in the series

Wehrli turns our everyday life upside down and points to our obsession with order

This cheerful work came at the start of an astonishingly productive year

Kunstdruck / Picasso / Limited Edition / Portrait einer Frau mit Pompon-Hut / 5 Farben / 60 x 80 cm Corrida Was that what drove theseIn the winter of 1961 62 Picasso drew a series of variations on the theme of the woman with a hat. Zervos is reproduced along with ten other versions, all dated January 12 or later, all painted in the same technique. Two drawings dated as of January 14 come closest to the one shown here. In contrast to the other pictures in the series, the heads are shown frontally and without multifaceted allusions. The asymmetrical treatment of the eyes is striking: