Painter Picking up His Brush

1927-1928

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund, Gift of The William Stamps Farish Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.4 x 28 cm (7 5/8 x 11 in.)
    sheet: 28 x 37.9 cm (11 x 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.12.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 129, State i/ii

  • Copyright

    © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably (Ambrose Vollard [1866-1939], Paris). Baron Henri Petiet, Paris, by 1939 (HMP in an oval, not in Lugt). (R. S. Johnson Fine Art), Chicago. Purchased by NGA in 1999.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1990

  • Geiser, Bernhard and Brigette Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur. 2 vols. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2). See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right below plate, in graphite: Picasso; by later hand, lower left below plate, in graphite: BG 129 i/ii B 88; by later hand, lower right verso, B. 88.

Watermarks

J. PERRIGOT

Wikidata ID

Q75421909

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