Two Women Waking Up
1959
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View on museum website →Medium
color linocut on wove paper
Dimensions
block: 53.2 x 64.4 cm (20 15/16 x 25 3/8 in.) sheet: 62.2 x 75.4 cm (24 1/2 x 29 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Edward E. MacCrone Fund
Accession Number
2001.65.1
About the Artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso in Málaga, Spain, was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art professor who served as his first teacher. From age seven, Picasso trained under his father in figure drawing and oil painting, mastering naturalistic techniques by copying mas...