Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes (The Sin)
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 69.8 × 40.2 cm · sheet: 77.7 × 49.2 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Accession Number
1983.185
Tags
male
About this artwork
The fatal women and embracing couples in Picasso’s art of the early 1900s exhibit striking affinities with the same themes in the prints of Norwegian symbolist Edvard Munch. Munch’s paintings and prints were widely circulated in Paris, shown at exhibitions, and available through dealers and fellow artists. Long hair as a key symbol of the fatal woman’s sexual allure is a recurrent theme in Munch’s art, as evident in this lithograph of 1900.