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Series Title: The Saltimbanques

Salomé

1905, printed 1913

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
printer

Louis Fort

(French, active 1800s–1900s)
publisher

Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1867–1939)
Culture
Spain, 20th century
Medium
etching and drypoint
Measurements
Image and Plate: 40.2 x 34.7 cm (15 13/16 x 13 11/16 in.); Sheet: 63.5 x 50 cm (25 x 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.897
Catalogue raisonné
Bloch 14; Palau i Fabre 1128; Geiser/Baer I.43.17 (Baer addendum p. 13);
State
IIIb2/III (Geiser/Baer)
Public Domain
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Around the same time that Picasso made this etching, his friend Guillaume Apollinaire also wrote a poem about the biblical figure of Salomé.
A vertically oriented print on tan paper depicts the outlines of four people. In the lower right, a kneeling topless woman holds a plate with a head in her lap, holding a tendril of the head's beard. She looks up at a thin, nude woman with shoulder-length hair, kicking her leg up to meet the palm of her outstretched left hand, right arm swinging behind. Furthest left, a topless, plump person sits, wearing an oval-shaped hat with another topless woman behind them.

Salomé

1905, printed 1913

Pablo Picasso, Louis Fort, Ambroise Vollard

(Spanish, 1881–1973), (French, active 1800s–1900s), (French, 1867–1939)
Spain, 20th century

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