Young Sculptor Finishing a Plaster (Jeune sculpteur finissant un plâtre)

1933

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image is a line drawing of a person and a large sculpted head. The person, depicted from the waist up and positioned towards the right side of the composition but facing left, has wide eyes and defined eyebrows. Their head appears to have curling vines or leaves in their curly hair and is unclothed, holding a high-relief carving tool or chisel pointed towards the sculpted head on a pedestal, also adorned with vines. The background is plain, emphasizing the interaction between the person and the carved bust.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on Montval laid paper [printed in 1939 by Roger Lacourière]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.7 x 19.3 cm (10 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 50.1 x 38.5 cm (19 3/4 x 15 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.113

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 309, State only (Bc)

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

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

upper right in plate: Paris 23 mars XXXIII-; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 308

Wikidata ID

Q65363370

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