The bombardment of Guernica was part of Franco's campaign against the Basque province of Vizcaya. 1957 (no number, repr. cat., Arnolfini, Bristol 1986, p.41). ; Edward B. Henning, ‘Pablo Picasso: Fan, Salt Box, and Melon’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol.56, Oct. 1969, p.284, fig.15; Basil Taylor, ‘A Vision for the Twentieth Century’, Observer Colour Magazine, 24 Oct. 1971, p.31, repr. [p.2]); Homage to Barcelona: The City and its Art 1888–1936, Hayward Gallery, Nov. 1985–Feb. p.66). In July 1936, five months after the victory of the Popular Front in the general elections in Spain, a military uprising in Spanish Morocco precipitated the Spanish Civil War. When he showed us into his studio we were both astonished at the captivating power of a small newly painted canvas placed on an easel as though he was still at work on it. ‘Guernica’ was then shipped to New York for a special showing at the Valentine Gallery organised by the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign in May 1939 and for the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Picasso: 40 Years of his Art in November of that year. Discover The Weeping Woman in Parkersburg, West Virginia: A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery. To this personal symbolism must be added a more general iconographical source, namely the use of scarves or mantillas by Spanish women. cat., 1981, p.141, 17 Oct. 1937, oil on canvas 920 × 726 (Zervos IX 1958, no.77), repr. Penrose made no identifiable record of the price agreed for the work but his diary for 1937 notes a figure of £500 for an unspecified Picasso purchase, while his diary for 1938 records on 23 January the figure of £284, again for an unspecified work. Penrose's appointments diary records a meeting with Picasso on 9 November and a meeting with Paul Eluard on 10 November, and Sweeney suggests that T 05010 was therefore purchased on one of these two occasions. For Picasso, the image of the woman with the dead child represented the reality of the civil war, which had been covered in the French media with images of mothers and children in distress. The attack was carried out in April 1937 by Nazi Germany’s air force, in support of Spain's Nationalist forces. Dora Maar agrees that there is some resemblance but recalls that Picasso told her that the right-hand figure of the woman with arms raised was based on herself, ‘Picasso said “it is you”’ (conversation with the compiler, Paris, 27 April 1990). The features of both women dominated Picasso's work throughout the late 1930s. I bought it when the paint was still wet’. Picasso's 'Weeping Woman' is a portrait of a woman; she is weeping and has a look of anguish on her face. For me she's the weeping woman. My heart sank as I expected the familiar lecture about not trying hard enough at my lessons. In cataloguing the work, however, the Tate Gallery has followed the title given in the catalogue raisonné prepared by Christian Zervos with the collaboration of the artist (IX 1958), translated from the French. The Tate draws particular attention to the childlike but striking rendition of the eyes, which have been depicted like boats or overflowing saucers and have been placed on the peaks of the handkerchief to provide an intense exploration of physical and emotional distress. cat., 1981, p.71, 27 May 1937, pencil and gouache on paper 232 × 293 (Zervos IX 1958, no.36), repr. Picasso was already 56 years old when he painted the Weeping Woman - about 30 years after cubism was invented. In certain respects, T05010 is closely related to the heads of the four female figures in ‘Guernica’. p.344 in col.); Paris-Paris 1937–1957: Créations en France, Musée national d'art moderne, Centres Georges Pompidou, Paris, May–Nov. [9] Although he was 26 years older than Maar, they were drawn together by a shared connection of art and politics. In July of the same year he acquired the collection of René Gaffé which included thirteen works by Picasso, notably ‘Danseuse nègre’, 1907 and ‘Jeune Fille à la mandoline’, 1910. Lost Legends: The Weeping Woman Every year, the town of San Cristobal holds a huge festival to soften the heart of the Weeping Woman a bitter spirit who kidnapped children long ago. In addition, the French Popular Front had used such photographs to protest against the conflict in 1936. This would put me two years beyond my 21st birthday, and by that time, he hinted, the painting would be worth ‘quite something’, and I could dispose of it if I wished. It was displayed at the Whitechapel Gallery in a major exhibition of Surrealist artworks in 1937. It has been housed in the collection of the Tate Modern in London since 1987. ‘Guernica’ was first shown in England at the New Burlington Galleries from 4 to 29 October 1938 and then moved to the Whitechapel Art Gallery from December to January 1939. Trailers, reviews and more on Popcorn! Zervos IX 1958, p.30 nos.66–8, 70–2. The iconography of the weeping woman appears to owe much to Dora Maar's own character and Picasso's perception of it, although, as has been noted above, Picasso depicted his mistress in a different light prior to ‘Guernica’. 71 in col.); Treasures For the Nation: Conserving Our Heritage, British Museum, Oct. 1988–Feb. Picasso portrayed her as a tranquil figure until his creation of the weeping women paintings, which displayed a noticeable change in his approach to her. Sotheby's Preview, no.80, April–May 1988, p.12). The painting depicts Dora Maar, Picasso's mistress and muse. p.62 (col.); Georges Boudaille, Marie-Laure Bernadac and Marie-Pierre Gauthier, Picasso, Paris 1985, p.100, pl.160 as ‘La Femme qui pleure’; Marilyn McCully, ‘Introduction’ in Homage to Barcelona, exh. Jagged lines, fractured shapes and acid colors set the despairing tone of the work. It first aired on October 27, 2012. The hybrid facial structure of T05010 is internally divided into planes of contrasting, vivid colour delineated in black and dark grey. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Some physiognomic details, invented as the weeping woman theme evolved, recur in unrelated works. The Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso is a silent protest of the bombing of Guernica. cat., 1994, p.118, Crayon on paper 293 × 212, repr. cat., 1981, repr.p.37); and by 11 May the four principal female protagonists, each exhibiting intense emotion and despair, were in place. When Penrose was reunited with the paintings at Chelsea Police Station he almost wept. Jonathan Jones for The Guardian noted that the painting demonstrates both hope and fury. This type of artwork can be considered to be expressionism. ; ‘Malraux's Conversations with Picasso’, Art News, vol.74, no.10, Dec.1975, p.40; Pierre Cabanne, Le Siècle de Picasso: 2. cat., Museo del Prado, Cason del Buen Retiro, Madrid 1981, p.142; Sandra Stolojan, ‘L'Oeil de la Colombe’, Esprit, Jan. 1982, p.95; Phyllis Tuchman, ‘Guernica and “Guernica”’, Art Forum, vol.21, no.8, April 1983, p.50; Richard Morphet, ‘Introduction’ in Suffering through Tyranny 1933–1953, Tate Gallery, display broadsheet, 1984, [p.1]; Gerd Betz, Pablo Picasso: Leben und Werk, Stuttgart and Zürich 1985, p.60, repr. This eye shape was incorporated in the stylised presentation of the eyes in two of the female figures in ‘Guernica’, the mother figure and the figure on the extreme right with outstretched arms. It must be worth between £60,000 and £80,000. Thereafter he visited the city frequently. According to him (ibid. The paintings were eventually recovered by labourers at a house that was due to be demolished in Ealing, London, in the July. The Weeping Woman (French: Femme an pleurs) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created in France in 1937. p.114 (col.) as ‘La Femme qui pleure’; Patrick McCaughey, ‘A Witness to “Guernica”: Picasso's “Weeping Woman”’, Art Bulletin of Victoria, no.27, 1986, p.76 fig.3; Ludwig Ullmann, Der Krieg im Werk Picassos: Reaktionen auf Krieg und Verfolgung, Osnabrück 1986, p.161, pl.83 as ‘Weinende Frau mit Taschentuch’; Anita Klein, ‘Imaginative Drawing: Introduction to a Five-Part Practical Course’, Artist, vol.102, no.1, Jan. 1987, p.21; Pierre Daix, Picasso créateur: La Vie intime et l'oeuvre, Paris 1987, p.267 as ‘Femme qui pleure’; Waldemar Januszczak, ‘A Picasso by the Tail’, Guardian, 13 Feb. 1987, p.19; Peter Watson, ‘Picasso Masterpiece May Be Lost to Britain’, Observer, 15 March 1987, p.5, repr. [4], The Weeping Woman has been described as the most complex, most fragmented and most highly coloured of all the weeping women artworks. Penrose continued to hold the view that ‘Weeping Woman’ was a Surrealist painting and Picasso substantially a ‘Surrealist’ artist. The figure of the Weeping Woman is based on artist and photographer Dora Maar. According to Sweeney, his trip to Paris in November 1937 was probably motivated by business concerning his organisation of the exhibition ‘Surrealist Objects and Poems’ at the London Gallery, which opened on 24 November. ); Documenta II, Kassel, July–Oct. Penrose himself was generous in lending the work and its prime position as one of the glories of his personal collection was well known. Anthony Blunt argued that this mixed treatment of the face may have been inspired in part by eleventh-century Spanish apocalyptic drawings of the type discussed in a 1931 article published in Cahiers d'art (Blunt 1969, p.53). This was the first in the series of thirty-six weeping women cited above. It is my hope she will remain in the Tate as a more permanent part of their collection in the room where she now hangs. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1994 pp.116–17. Such reports are supported by Picasso's own written description of Dora Maar on 18 February 1937 as ‘Diablement séduisante dans son déguisement de larmes et chapeautée à merveille’ (Marie-Laure Bernadec, ed., Picasso: Collected Writings, Paris 1989, p.156). The Weeping Woman was created at the end of a series of paintings that Picasso produced in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War and is closely associated with the iconography in his painting Guer… At least twelve further depictions followed over the next four weeks. The poet Paul Éluard introduced Picasso to Maar while she was working as a photographer on Jean Renoir's film Le Crime de Monsieur Lange. p.48; Mary Mathews Gedo, Picasso: Art as Autobiography, Chicago and London 1980, pp.184–6; Edgar Munhall, ‘Briefs ans New York: Picasso - Retrospektive’, Du, no.8, 1980, p.72; W.J. In these early paintings dated 22 June (‘Weeping Woman with Handkerchief’, Museo nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, repr. Many other ambiguities enrich the poetic associations but in other terms this is a lifelike portrait of Dora Maar, (‘Picasso during the Thirties’, lecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art, March 1976, transcript, coll. ibid., p.139) shows how Picasso has made the eyes, ears and teeth powerfully expressive elements: the eyes are like boats or overflowing saucers, the ears are butterflies or flowers, while the teeth are sharp and fang-like. The features of Marie-Thérèse Walter, or rather Picasso's sculpted vision of her face, are evident in a number of monochrome drawings of the motif throughout the period. Published in: cat., 1980, pp.328–9). In France the bombing was followed by a week of intense and often extremely contradictory newspaper reporting, which reflected the international political arena as much as actual events in Spain. The theft received a great deal of publicity and was discussed by Roland Penrose on BBC's 24 Hours programme on 8 April 1969. ibid., p.143) is, of all the paintings, closest to T05010. It was Maar who documented Picasso's painting of Guernica by taking photographs of its development. Marie-Thérèse's presence in the very early sketches for ‘Guernica’ probably reflects the fact that they were made during two weekends spent with her and their daughter Maya (Chipp 1989, p.216 n.31). A commitment to the real was confirmed by Picasso himself who confessed, ‘I attempt to observe nature, always, I am intent on resemblance, a resemblance more real that the real, attaining the surreal. Her features are recognisable in both drawings of 8 June and in most subsequent treatments. All the elements that Picasso had explored through the early summer and then developed in September and October were brought together in T05010. The head, hat, face, hands and handkerchief are rendered in a complex and angular structure with coloured planes of white, red, green, yellow, blue and mauve, held together with bold black outlines. [6], The architecture of the weeping woman's face is very distinctive and shares many design elements with the four female figures depicted in Guernica. p.69 (col.) and on front cover (col.); Friends of the Tate Gallery Report 1987–8, 1988, p.16, repr. This treatment of the face is echoed in the faces of the Guernica women. The heightened colour of the final compositon, the elaborate hat and the suggestion of heavy makeup applied to the face and the nail varnish evoke Maar's passion for elaborate dress and display. He drew her frequently, almost obsessively, for the next several months. General Emilio Mola, spear heading the Army of the North, had the support of the German Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe. The mouth is shown in a three-quarters view. In his letter to the compiler Michael Sweeney suggested that Penrose, who was already lending other works, did not want to risk his favourite Picasso, given the dangers posed to transatlantic shipping by the war. Breton described this emotion as taking place when a person is ‘suddenly caught by the “stronger than himself”, and thrust, despite his bodily inertia into immortality’ (ibid., p.121). She became his main model between the autumn of 1936 and spring of 1937. cat., 1994, p.113), although in this and the other painting of 18 October (‘Weeping Woman’, Musée Picasso, Paris, repr. [1] This painting, created on 26 October 1937,[2] was the most elaborate of the series. A further closely related work is a small gouache and ink painting on panel entitled ‘The Suppliant’, 18 December 1937 (Musée Picasso, Paris, repr. It was painted at the studio in rue des Grands Augustins and the background interior decor is entirely imagined. The theft caused the family to rethink their security arrangements and this led to the painting being offered on loan to the Tate. [4], In January 1937, Picasso had been asked to produce a mural for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition. She was intellectually involved with a group of Surrealists committed to Popular Front policies and she was articulate and persuasive. 1993 (13, repr.in col.); Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb.–May 1994, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June–Sept. I couldn't make a portrait of her laughing. Its colour was not only shocking in itself but particularly powerful in being associated with grief. The thieves' demands included an increase to arts funding.[15]. And It is important, because women … as ‘Woman Weeping’; ‘Tate to Get Picasso in Special Deal’, Independent, 2 Oct. 1987, p.l; Geraldine Norman, ‘Tate Gets Picasso Painting for £3.1m after Tax Deal’, Independent, 2 Oct. 1987, p.3; Godfrey Barker, ‘Tate to Keep Picasso in £3m Tax Deal’, Daily Telegraph, 3 Oct. 1987, p.1, repr. In the heart of darkness (1939-1945), If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso, Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Weeping_Woman&oldid=1012560197, Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 61 cm × 50 cm (23 15/60 in × 19 11/16 in), This page was last edited on 17 March 2021, at 01:21. cat., 1981, p.127, 16 June 1937, pencil and crayon on paper 290 × 232 Tate Gallery, T 06929 (not in Zervos), 22 June 1937, oil on canvas 550 × 463 (Zervos IX 1958, no.52), repr. Exh: Realism and Surrealism, Guildhall, Gloucester, May–June 1938 (52); Picasso's Guernica with 67 Preparatory Paintings, Sketches and Studies, New Burlington Galleries, 4–29 Oct. 1938, Oriel College Lecture Room, Oxford, Nov.–Dec. 1955, Rheinisches Museum, Cologne, Dec.–Feb. It was part of a series of works in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War on 26 April 1937. In January 1937 the Spanish Government in Exile (the ‘legitimate’ Republican government which had fled Madrid under fire from the rebel Nationalists in November 1936) commissioned Picasso to produce a painting for its pavilion, designed by Luis Lacasa and José-Luis Sert, at the World's Fair to be held in Paris in June 1937. Madrid exh.cat., 1981, p.85, 3 June 1937, pencil, crayon and gouache on paper 232 × 293 (Zervos IX 1958, no.40), repr. A traveling salesman discovers the … However, in 1937 Picasso made thirty-eight paintings of Marie-Thérèse and only twelve of Dora Maar. The attack was … ), ‘Special Double Issue: Picasso’, Life, vol.65, no.26, Dec. 1968, p.75, repr. Madrid exh. p.43 in col. as ‘La Femme en pleurs’); 50 Ans Los Angeles exh.cat., 1994, p.77, 26 June 1937, oil on canvas 549 × 460, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Zervos IX 1958, no. Oppler 1988, p.85), which stood at the entrance to the Spanish Pavilion. Maar photographed Picasso's making of Guernica. On 30 April 1937 Ce Soir published photographs of the ruined city. The specific configuration of forms employed in T 05010, in which the eyes are poised on the two pointed summits of the handkerchief was elaborated in the two pen and ink drawings dated 24 and 26 October, now in the collection of the Musée Picasso (repr. Madrid exh.cat., 1981, p.135, 12 Oct. 1937, pen, ink and pencil on paper 901 × 584 (Zervos IX 1958, no.74), repr. p.3; Norman Pickles, ‘Modern Art in Historic Setting; Picasso on North Brink’, Wisbech Standard, 30 July 1954, p.7 as ‘Woman Weeping’; Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartés, Picasso, 1955, pp.232, 325, repr. Picasso originally intended to make a series of eighteen postcard-size prints to be sold individually to raise money for the Spanish Republican cause. Picasso created The Weeping Woman during the Spanish Civil War, which broke out in July 1936, when General Franco revolted against the Republican government. cat., 1994, p.77, 22 June 1937, oil on canvas 550 × 460, private collection (Zervos IX 1958, no.50), repr. I had never seen her like that’ (Mary Mathews Gedo, Art as Autobiography - Picasso's Self Image, 1980, p.181). According to John Richardson, Maar's intelligence made Picasso ‘almost as nervous as the former's [Marie-Thérèse's] lack of it’ (‘L'Amour Fou’, New York Review of Books, 19 Dec. 1985, p.68). [3] The painting was a personal protest after seeing newspaper photographs of the event. It was painted during the Spanish Civil War as one of a series made in response to the tragedy of Guernica. Freud described how he had placed the painting on the seat of the railway carriage facing him and looked at it throughout the journey in bright sunlight which revealed the brilliance of the colouring. Madrid exh. 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