The Poor (Les pauvres)
1905, published 1913
Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939
Printer, French, active first half 20th century
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid Japanese paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 23.5 x 17.9 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
sheet: 48.3 x 33.4 cm (19 x 13 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1952.8.280
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Catalogue Raisonné
Geiser/Baer, no. 4, State ii/ii (b1)
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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.
1964
The Turn of the Century, Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964, no. 43.
1977
French Prints by Twentieth-Century Masters, NGA, Sep. 11-Nov. 20, 1977.
2021
Picasso: Painting the Blue Period, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2021-2022 (shown only in Washington).
Bibliography
1944
Johnson, Una E. Ambroise Vollard Editeur, 1867-1939; an appreciation and catalogue. New York: Wittenborn & Co., 1944, no. 108.3.
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
by later hand, lower left in graphite: G. 4b / 12
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65363872