10 Euros Picasso's "Cabeza de Mujer llorando"

Reverse

Colour reproduction of the work entitled "Weeping Woman's Head with Handkerchief (III)", painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937, which is preserved in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid.

Script: Latin

Lettering: CABEZA DE MUJER LLORANDO CON PAÑUELO III

Translation: Weeping Woman's Head with Handkerchief (III)

Designer: Pablo Picasso

Edge

Plain

Comment

On the occasion of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the “Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre FNMT” dedicates a collection of commemorative coins to the Spanish painter, the inimitable creator of the various currents that revolutionized the plastic arts of the 20th century.

One of the central motifs linked to Guernica are the effigies known colloquially as "weeping women", inspired by the physiognomy of Dora Maar. These portraits would be the most reiterated compositions by the artist once the great mural was completed, on June 4, 1937. In these representations, Pablo Picasso introduces at least three formal variations with respect to Guernica itself, the first of which are the tears, which flow down the deformed female faces, and which did not appear on the emblematic canvas. Another element, also absent in Guernica, is the handkerchief that wipes away those tears, and finally, along with the two iconographic motifs mentioned, Picasso includes a third formal aspect, a very vivid color, which stands as the protagonist of these compositions and which contrasts with the chromatic range of the large mural, resolved, as is known, through white, gray and black tones. The "weeping woman" would become a recurring motif in Picasso's production even until the 1940s, linking with the stylistic cycle initiated by the painter in 1937 when he undertook the famous painting.

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Price

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