[Picasso Painting] Pablo Picasso explored many different themes, often simultaneously, in different styles and media. He invented new ways of representing modern visual experiences while drawing on the history of art for inspiration.

In Head, a portrait of Marie-Therese Walter, his mistress of the period, Picasso uses multiple-view Cubist techniques. He depicts Walter's cheeks and breasts fragmented, reshaped, and integrated into the geometric forms of Cubism.

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, bequest of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981.

Head, 1934, by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), oil on canvas

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