The greatest of Picasso's many studies of weeping women, this picture was executed four months after Guernica, developing the theme of the grief-stricken victim.
Roland Penrose, who purchased the painting from the artist as soon as it was painted, wrote of the work in his biography of Picasso: 'The result of using colour in a manner so totally unassociated with grief, for a face in which sorrow is evident in every line, is highly disconcerting. As though the tragedy had arrived without warning.'
More information
Title of artwork, date
Weeping Woman, 1937
Date supported
1988
Medium and material
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60.8 x 50 cm
Grant
50,000
Total cost
1,915,000
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