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
Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Printer, French, 1892 - 1966
Artwork overview
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Medium
dark-manner aquatint in black with scraping, burnishing, drypoint, and engraving on wove Arches paper [proof of final state before steelfacing]
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 24.7 x 34.8 cm (9 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)
sheet: 31.7 x 45.3 cm (12 1/2 x 17 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1996.104.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Geiser/Baer, no. 437, State iv/iv (Aa)
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Copyright
© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Roger Lacourière [1892-1966], Paris, 1934; by inheritance to his wife, Madeleine Lacourière; (Frederick Mulder, London); purchased 1996 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 90, 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.
1997
Ritchie, Charles. "Pablo Picasso, Blind Minotaur Led by a Girl in the Night." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 17 (Spring 1997): 7.
Inscriptions
probably in the printer Roger Lacourière's hand: lower right in graphite: 3e. etat; in the same hand, lower left below plate mark in graphite: epai sur Arches manière noire et Burin / de Picasso 34.
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q75403596