Sculptor and Model with a Sculpture Representing a Centaur Kissing a Woman (Sculpteur et son modèle avec un groupe sculpté représentant un centaure embrassant une femme)

1933

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The drawing consists of thin lines outlining intertwined human forms and a centaur-like figure. The centaur figure is at the center and two human figures are on the right. The figures are entwined with detailed musculature and intricate designs, suggesting movement and connection between them.
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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: 19.4 x 26.7 cm (7 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 38.5 x 50.2 cm (15 3/16 x 19 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.124

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 320, State only (Bc)

  • Series Title

    Vollard Suite [Bloch 134-233]

  • 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 31 Mars XXXIII-; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 319

Wikidata ID

Q65363414

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