Two Women Gazing at a Nude Model (Deux femmes regardent un modèle nu)

1923

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image shows three people with varying amounts of their bodies visible. The person on the left is standing upright with eyes down, draped in a long garment. The middle person is adjusting the left person's garment. The third person, on the right, is in profile, stretching one arm upward, with their back facing the viewer. All three individuals have dark, textured hair. The background is a textured wall with no distinct objects.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint, open bite etching, scraping, and etching (zinc) in black on laid Montval paper [printed in 1929 by LeBlanc and Trautmann and published by Marcel Guiot]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.8 x 12.9 cm (7 x 5 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 40 x 29.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.311

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 102, State vi/vi (a)

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

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.

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). See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

Inscriptions

lower right below plate mark in graphite: 94/100 Picasso; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: N.Y.6849; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: L.R.

Watermarks

VM France

Wikidata ID

Q65081624

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