The Acrobats (Les saltimbanques)
1905, published 1913
Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939
Printer, French, active first half 20th century
Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint on wove Van Gelder paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 28.7 x 32.8 cm (11 5/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
sheet: 35.8 x 42 cm (14 1/8 x 16 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.6733
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Catalogue Raisonné
Geiser/Baer, no. 9, State ii/ii (b2)
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Copyright
© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1945
French Prints of the 19th Century from the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City, 1945, no. 39.
1959
Old Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1959.
1961
A Picasso Retrospective in Prints from the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, 12 venue tour organized by the American Federation of Arts (Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, NY; Art Association of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Miami Beach Art Center, FL; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; Fort Worth Art Center, TX; Boise Art Association, ID; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT; Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Quebec, Canada; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA), 1961-1962, no cat.
2008
Pablo Picasso: Preoccupations and Passions, Naples (Florida) Museum of Art, 2008, no cat.
Bibliography
1968
Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso; catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie 1904-1967. Bern: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1968.
1990
Geiser/Baer, novol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2). See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.
2010
Robison, Andrew. "Pablo Picasso, Young Woman Seated in an Armchair," National Gallery of Art Bulletin, no. 43 (Fall 2010): 24-25.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: Picasso / 1905; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 36465 NK
Wikidata ID
Q65024197