Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973
Femme nue à a source, 1963
Linocut in colours on Arches vellum paper
Image: 53.4 x 64 cm
Sheet: 62.5 x 75.5 cm
Sheet: 62.5 x 75.5 cm
Edition of 50, n°48/50 Printed by Arnera, vallauris; Edited by Louise Leiris, Paris
Signed on the lower right cornr and numbered by the artist
This work is one of the variants Picasso executed in both painting, drawing and engraving on Manet's famous "Déjeuner sur l'herbe". Always aware of art history, and of his place in it, this theme fascinated Picasso in the early 60s : in particular the female character in the background, which Picasso distorts more and more with each re-interpretation.
This work is one of the variants Picasso executed in both painting, drawing and engraving on Manet's famous "Déjeuner sur l'herbe". Always aware of art history, and of his place in it, this theme fascinated Picasso in the early 60s : in particular the female character in the background, which Picasso distorts more and more with each re-interpretation.
Provenance
Artist's studio
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Exhibitions
New York, Picasso Linoleum Cuts: The Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kramer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, 7 mars - 12 mai, 1985, N° 90.
Literature
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso, Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié, Vol. I, 1904-1967, Berne, Editions Kornfeld & Klipstein, 1968 n°1093.
Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur. Tome V, 1959-1965, Editions Kornfeld, 1989 n°1326.
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