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Woman Leaning on Her Elbow, Back of Sculpture, and Bearded Head

1933 (published 1939)

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)

Spain, 20th century

etching and sugarlift on vergé de Montval laid paper

Image: 37.6 x 29.3 cm (14 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 49.6 x 38.2 cm (19 1/2 x 15 1/16 in.)

Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett 2018.1078

Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Although Ambroise Vollard commissioned this print from Picasso in 1930, it was not printed until the 1939, the year of Vollard’s death.

Description

This print belongs to a series of 100 that the dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned from Picasso during the 1930s. Picasso worked with master printer Roger Lacourière, experimenting with a range of etching techniques. Many of the prints, such as this one, feature a stark, linear style evocative of classical art that Picasso favored during this period. Here, a nude sculpture and heavily bearded face further suggest ancient Greece.

Frederick Mulder, Ltd., London, England
2006-2018
James and Hanna Bartlett, Lincoln, MA
December 3, 2018
the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Geiser, Bernhard and Brigitte Baer. Picasso, peintre-graveur: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1932-1934, vol. 2 (Bern: Editions Kornfeld, 1933-68) p. 169, ill. no. 343
Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso, Catalogue de l’œuvre gravé, 1904-1967, vol. 1 (Bern: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1975) ill. no. 184
Peters, Emily and Salsbury, Britany. “Acquisitions 2018: Prints and Drawings.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 20-23. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 23.
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