Minotaur Caressing a Sleeping Woman (Minotaure caressant une dormeuse)

1933

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

This print shows a creature crouching over a sleeping woman. The two figures are oriented horizontally in the print, with the woman's head in the bottom left corner and the creature's head in the top left. The creature has a large, furry head similar to that of a bull, with a large snout and curling horns, but it has the body of a human man, with the exception of a small, furry tail. The creature is naked. Only the head of the woman is visible, which lays on a pillow, facing us. Her facial features are minimal, with a long, straight nose, arched eyebrows, and a small mouth. Her hands are curled by her face. Both figures have light skin. Beneath them appears to be the white sheets of a bed, and the wall behind them is dark.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching [printed in 1939 by Roger Lacouriere]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.189

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 369, State ii/ii (Bc)

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1961

  • A Picasso Retrospective in Prints from the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, 12 venue tour organized by the American Federation of Arts (Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, NY; Art Association of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Miami Beach Art Center, FL; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; Fort Worth Art Center, TX; Boise Art Association, ID; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT; Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Quebec, Canada; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA), 1961-1962, no cat.

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. 369 ii/ii (Bc). See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

Wikidata ID

Q65363752

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