Two Nudes Resting (Femmes se Reposant)
1931
Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Pablo Picasso
Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint on laid paper [printed 1939]
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Credit Line
Gift of Lesley Ryan, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
plate: 29.8 x 36.9 cm (11 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
sheet: 33.9 x 44.4 cm (13 3/8 x 17 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1991.158.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Geiser/Baer, no. 210, State only
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Copyright
© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 75.
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. 210. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate (in reverse): 29 [illegible] / XXXI; lower right in graphite: Picasso; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 10; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 417564 TMY
Watermarks
Vollard
Wikidata ID
Q74894383