Focus on Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) and discuss the Design.
The sculpture is a bust made from plaster. The nose of the sculpture is formed from a representation of Picasso's penis that is draped over Walter's forehead. Picasso's biographer John Richardson felt that the breasts of the bust gave it "the look of a crouching Sphinx".The piece was created at the same time as another plaster bust, Head of a Woman. Contemporaneous photographs of the two pieces in Picasso's studio at Boisgeloup show that he had originally attempted to fuse the two busts together and that they both had long "giraffe like" necks. Head of a Woman also references Picasso's genitalia, its eyeballs have been likened to testicles and its nose is also modeled on Picasso's penis.
John Richardson plaster bust