Head of a Woman, 1960 Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Portraits of his beloveds—friends, wives, mistresses, and children—occupied Picasso throughout his life. The dark-haired, dark-eyed features of Jacqueline Roque (1927–1986), his muse for the last nineteen years of his life, fill the entire space of this fairly small canvas. Boldly dividing both figure and background into large irregular, curvilinear shapes that fit together like puzzle pieces, he renders the de...
