Blind Minotaur Led by Marie-Thérèse with a Dove in a Starry Night (Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au pigeon dans une nuit étoilée), 1934

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series Title

Vollard Suite [Bloch 134-233]

Medium

dark-manner aquatint in black with scraping, burnishing, drypoint, and engraving on wove Arches paper [proof of final state before steelfacing]

Dimensions

plate: 24.7 x 34.8 cm (9 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)

sheet: 31.7 x 45.3 cm (12 1/2 x 17 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Geiser/Baer, no. 437, State iv/iv (Aa)

Accession Number

1996.104.3

Artists / Makers

Pablo Picasso (artist) Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Roger Lacourière (printer) French, 1892 - 1966

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Copyright

Inscription

probably in the printer Roger Lacourière's hand: lower right in graphite: 3e. etat; in the same hand, lower left below plate mark in graphite: epai sur Arches manière noire et Burin / de Picasso 34.

Provenance

Roger Lacourière [1892-1966], Paris, 1934; by inheritance to his wife, Madeleine Lacourière; (Frederick Mulder, London); purchased 1996 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lacourière, Roger
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 90, as Blind Minotaur Led Through the Night.

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. 437. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

1997: Ritchie, Charles. "Pablo Picasso, Blind Minotaur Led by a Girl in the Night." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 17 (Spring 1997): 7.