id: 111389
accession number: 1929.891
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.891
updated: 2025-04-16 18:10:19.841000
The Saltimbanques: The Mother at Her Toilette, 1905, printed 1913. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Louis Fort (French, active 1800s–1900s), Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939). Etching; image and plate: 23.5 x 17.7 cm (9 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.); sheet: 51 x 33 cm (20 1/16 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1929.891. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: The Mother at Her Toilette
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series: The Saltimbanques
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creation date: 1905, printed 1913
creation date earliest: 1905
creation date latest: 1913
current location:
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: etching
department: Prints
collection: PR - Etching
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Bloch 13; Palau i Fabre 1041; Geiser/Baer I.40.15
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CREATORS
* Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) - artist
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world.
* Louis Fort (French, active 1800s–1900s) - printer
* Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939) - publisher
French art dealer and publisher, 1867-1939
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measurements: Image and Plate: 23.5 x 17.7 cm (9 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 51 x 33 cm (20 1/16 x 13 in.)
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inscription: Watermark: VAN GELD[ER ZONEN]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Picasso and Paper
opening date: 2024-12-08T05:00:00
Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Borowitz, Helen O. "Three Guitars: Reflections of Italian Comedy in Watteau, Daumier, and Picasso." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (April 1984): 116-129.
Published as: The Circus Family
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 124-125, fig. 17
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159858
Dumas, Ann. "The Rose Period." In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 80-101. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020.
page number: Reproduced: P. 91, cat. no. 63
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