Old Sculptor at Work (Vieux sculpteur au travail II)

1933

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image displays a network of intersecting lines and shapes forming an abstract composition. The lines converge to create two subjects resembling faces, one featuring detailed curly lines suggesting hair and expressions, while the other has overlapping curves hinting at a stylized profile. Leaf-like shapes near the top of the heads resemble crowns or laurels. The composition evokes figures engaged in an embrace or confrontation, with abstract structures resembling appendages or objects being held.
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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: 26.8 x 19.3 cm (10 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 50.5 x 38.9 cm (19 7/8 x 15 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.115

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 311, 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 (in reverse): Paris 26 mars XXXIII-; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 310

Wikidata ID

Q65363374

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