Blind Minotaur Led by Marie-Thérèse with a Dove in a Starry Night (Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au pigeon dans une nuit étoilée)

1934

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    dark-manner aquatint in black with scraping, burnishing, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper [after steelfacing]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24.7 x 34.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 38.8 x 50.3 cm (15 1/4 x 19 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.16.178

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 437, State iv/iv (Bc)

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1960

  • Graphic Masterpieces of 500 Years from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, 1960, no. 53.

1962

  • Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, 1962, no cat.

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 91, as Blind Minotaur Led Through the Night.

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), no. 437. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: 383

Watermarks

WM: Montgolfier

Wikidata ID

Q65363688

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