Painter Picking up His Brush

1927-1928

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image features two figures in different positions, one nude and hunched over on the left holding painting supplies, and another fully clothed and sitting upright on the right. The setting includes artistic elements like an easel and swirling patterns. Inset on the left is a detailed sketch of a woman's profile with wavy hair.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund, Gift of The William Stamps Farish Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.4 x 28 cm (7 5/8 x 11 in.)
    sheet: 28 x 37.9 cm (11 x 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.12.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 129, State i/ii

  • Series Title

    Le Chef d'Oeuvre inconnu

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably (Ambrose Vollard [1866-1939], Paris). Baron Henri Petiet, Paris, by 1939 (HMP in an oval, not in Lugt). (R. S. Johnson Fine Art), Chicago. Purchased by NGA in 1999.

Associated Names

Bibliography

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

signed by artist, lower right below plate, in graphite: Picasso; by later hand, lower left below plate, in graphite: BG 129 i/ii B 88; by later hand, lower right verso, B. 88.

Watermarks

J. PERRIGOT

Wikidata ID

Q75421909

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