Pablo Picasso’s Flowered Hat, 1963, is a radiant example of the artist’s late linocuts, where bold experimentation and personal intimacy converge. The work presents the striking visage of a woman adorned with an extravagant, blossom-laden hat, her profile rendered with the clarity and monumentality that defined Picasso’s graphic work of the early 1960s. The composition balances elegance and strength: the woman’s features—her sculpted brow, elongated nose, and sensuous lips—are outlined with firm, decisive cuts, while the playful abundance of the flowered hat crowns her with vitality and grace.

The image is at once portrait and archetype. Though often linked to Jacqueline Roque, Picasso’s devoted companion and muse of these years, the figure transcends the individual, embodying timeless femininity and beauty elevated into icon. The elaborate floral headpiece, carved in rhythmic patterns, contrasts with the austerity of her face, creating a dynamic interplay between ornament and essence, surface and depth. Light and shadow, distributed in bold masses, animate the composition, evoking both the simplicity of classical reliefs and the daring of modern abstraction.

Flowered Hat reveals Picasso’s mastery of linocut at its most refined: a medium traditionally used for craft transformed into a vehicle for monumental expression. With minimal means, he achieves an image of striking elegance and expressive power, merging the decorative and the sculptural, the intimate and the universal. The result is a portrait that radiates dignity, vitality, and timeless allure—an homage to the enduring presence of woman as muse, subject, and symbol within Picasso’s art.

Created in 1963, Pablo Picasso Flowered Hat is a linocut on Arches paper hand-signed by Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) in pencil in the lower right margin. Numbered from the edition of 50 in pencil in the lower left margin, this work was published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Pablo Picasso Flowered Hat, 1963 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work):

1. Bloch, Georges. Picasso Catalogue de l'ouvre gravé et lithographié, Volume I. Kornfeld et Cie: Switzerland, 1968. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 1149.
2. McVinney, L. Donald, et al Picasso Linoleum Cuts: The Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kramer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Random House, 1985. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 98.
3. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany our Pablo Picasso’s Flowered Hat, 1963.

About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Pablo Picasso Flowered Hat, 1963 is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.