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RISDM 58-158.tif

Pablo Picasso

Sculptor, Model, and Sculpture: Seated Woman (Sculpteur, modèle et sculpture: femme assise)

Description

Maker

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), designer

Title

Sculptor, Model, and Sculpture: Seated Woman (Sculpteur, modèle et sculpture: femme assise)
Vollard Suite (Suite Vollard)

Year

1933

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

drypoint

Supports

Dimensions

Plate: 31.8 x 18.4 cm (12 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

58.158

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses
The Artist's Model
Nov 12, 2010 – Jun 06, 2011

Label copy

Among the one hundred etchings Pablo Picasso created for the “Vollard Suite,” a series commissioned by the eminent art dealer Ambrose Vollard, a large portion focus on the interactions of a male sculptor and a female model within a studio space. This drypoint, dated March 15, 1933, is the earliest to treat this theme, featuring a nude male sculptor and a beautiful woman, who is presumably Marie-Thérèse Walter. Picasso met Walter when she was only seventeen years old, and she became his primary model and his secret mistress until 1935, throughout the creation of the majority of the “Vollard Suite” prints.

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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), designer
Sculptor, Model, and Sculpture: Seated Woman (Sculpteur, modèle et sculpture: femme assise); Vollard Suite (Suite Vollard), 1933
Drypoint on cream laid paper
Plate: 31.8 x 18.4 cm (12 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches)
Museum Works of Art Fund 58.158

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