Sculptor with His Self-Portrait Serving as a Pedestal for a Head of Marie-Thérèse (Sculpteur et son autoportrait sculpté servant de socle à une tête de Marie-Thérèse)

1933

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image features flowing lines and curves forming abstract faces and a human figure. One face resembles a carved stone head with exaggerated features, while another face has sweeping lines. The standing figure is adorned with leaves or laurels, reminiscent of classical representations.
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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

    1950.16.116

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 310, 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

vertically along lower right edge in plate (in reverse): Paris 26 mars XXXIII-; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 311

Wikidata ID

Q65363377

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