The Spring (La source)

1921

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Pablo Picasso

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint with engraving (zinc) in black on laid paper [printed in 1929 by Leblanc and Trautmann and published by Marcel Guiot]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.8 x 23.7 cm (7 x 9 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.7 x 44.8 cm (13 1/4 x 17 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.312

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 61, State ii/ii (a)

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1948

  • Experimental Printmaking in France, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1948, no. 26.

1987

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1987-1988.

Bibliography

1968

  • Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso; catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie 1904-1967. Bern: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1968.

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

lower right below plate mark in graphite: 80/100 Picasso; by later hand, lower left in graphite: G. 61 10367; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 46.265

Wikidata ID

Q65081626

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