Sculptor, Model, and Boy with a Sculpture Representing the Abduction of Europa (Sculpteur, garçon et modèle avec un groupe sculpté représentant le rapt d'Europe)

1933

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image is a line drawing by Pablo Picasso showing intertwined figures with features of a human and a bull. The lines depict facial features, garlands above their heads, unclothed bodies with gentle curves, and the signature "Picasso" at the bottom right. The background is plain.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on Montval laid paper [printed in 1939 by Roger Lacourière]

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lesley Ryan, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.5 x 26.7 cm (7 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 34 x 44.4 cm (13 3/8 x 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.158.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Geiser/Baer, no. 318, State only (Bd)

  • Series Title

    Vollard Suite [Bloch 134-233]

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 76.

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

lower center in plate (in reverse): Paris 30 Mars XXXIII-; lower right below plate mark in graphite: Picasso; by later hand, across bottom in graphite: SV56 275 895318 MSTY $11,500

Watermarks

Picasso

Wikidata ID

Q74894388

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