The Weeping Woman

The Weeping Woman
Artist	Pablo Picasso
Year	1937
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Surrealism
Dimensions	61 cm × 50 cm (23 15/60 in × 19 11/16 in)
Location	Tate Modern, London

The Weeping Woman (French: La Femme qui pleure^[1]) is a series of oil on canvas^[2] paintings by Pablo Picasso, the last of which was created in late 1937. The paintings depict Dora Maar, Picasso's mistress and muse. The Weeping Woman paintings were produced by Picasso in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War and are closely associated with the iconography in his painting Guernica. Picasso was intrigued with the subject of the weeping woman, and revisited the theme numerous times that year.^[3] The last version, created on 26 October 1937,^[4] was the most elaborate of the series, and has been housed in the collection of the Tate Modern in London since 1987. Another Weeping Woman painting created on 18 October 1937 is housed at the National Gallery of Victoria and was involved in a high-profile political art theft.