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Pablo Picasso — Buste de femme
Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme

"Buste de femme" is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his Cubist approach to portraiture through fragmented and abstracted facial features. The work deconstructs the female form into geometric planes and multiple viewpoints, characteristic of the artist's revolutionary style that challenged traditional representational conventions. Painted during Picasso's prolific Cubist period, the work demonstrates his ability to convey both the essence and visual complexity of his subject through non naturalistic color and spatial relationships.

Medium
oil on canvas

🔨 Auction Lot

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

March 4, 2025

Estimate: $4,000,000$6,000,000

Lot 20

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Pablo Picasso, Buste de femme

"Buste de femme" is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his Cubist approach to portraiture through fragmented and abstracted facial features. The work deconstructs the female form into geometric planes and multiple viewpoints, characteristic of the artist's revolutionary style that challenged traditional representational conventions. Painted during Picasso's prolific Cubist period, the work demonstrates his ability to convey both the essence and visual complexity of his subject through non naturalistic color and spatial relationships.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Geometric, Face, 20th Century, Bold, Cubism, Bronze Sculpture, Sculptural Bust, Abstracted form, Avant-Garde, Geometric decomposition, Modern Aesthetic, Portrait, Modern, Spanish Artist, Female Portrait, Woman, Abstracted, Spanish, Oil on Canvas

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Collected by

Richard Caswell, Sebastián In Situ, Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Sebastián Naranjo, Alex Capecelatro