Minotaur and Young Woman Entertwined and Dreaming Under a Window (Minotaure et jeune femme enlacés rêvant sous une fenêtre)

1933

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

This print shows a line drawing of a reclining woman lying next to a creature resembling a minotaur. Their heads are towards the top left corner, and their feet stretch towards the bottom right. The woman is nude, lying on her back with one arm tucked by her head and her other arm extended to the right. Her facial features are drawn with minimal lines, including large eyes, thin lips, and a small, straight nose. Her short hair curls around her head. She lays on the chest of the minotaur, and one of its human hands is curled onto her chest, while the other hand is holding a beaded necklace around its neck. It has a large bull's head with short, curly hair and two small, curved horns. A cloth patterned with small flowers appears to be wrapped around its waist, and its knees are bent in front of the woman, its bare feet visible. Small vertical lines on the left and right indicate curtains hanging over them, and in the top right is the bottom edge of a window or painting which shows a minimal hilly landscape. In the center of the print there is a large black mark, like a dark scribble, that looks out of place with the thin lines in the rest of the print.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching [printed in 1939 by Roger Lacouriere]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.187

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 367, State only (Bc)

  • Copyright

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


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1966

  • Picasso: Sixty Years of Graphic Works, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966, no. 163, repro.

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), no. 367 only (Bc). See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

Wikidata ID

Q65363723

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