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"tombstone": "Two Nude Women (A series of progressive proofs), 1945\u201346. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881\u20131973), Mourlot. Lithograph; image: 32 x 42.4 cm (12 5/8 x 16 11/16 in.); sheet: 33 x 45.8 cm (13 x 18 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1972.53.5. \u00a9 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Two Nude Women (A series of progressive proofs)",
"creation_date": "1945\u201346",
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"Latine and Hispanic Artists",
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"department": "Prints",
"collection": "PR - Lithograph",
"type": "Print",
"measurements": "Image: 32 x 42.4 cm (12 5/8 x 16 11/16 in.); Sheet: 33 x 45.8 cm (13 x 18 1/16 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"id": 317581,
"title": "Picasso and Paper",
"description": "Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).",
"opening_date": "2024-12-08T05:00:00"
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"1973.57"
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"did_you_know": "The two figures in this print are thought to represent the painter Fran\u00e7oise Gilot and the photographer Dora Maar, both of whom were romantically involved with Picasso around this time.",
"description": "Picasso printed each of these 10 lithographs from the same stone. This technique involves chemically sealing a drawing to the surface of a printing stone so that ink adheres to the design and the stone can be run through a printing press. Picasso edited and reprinted his stone as he transformed the image. The artist ultimately created 21 states, or variations, highlighting his fascination with what he described as the \u201cmetamorphosis\u201d possible through printmaking. He experimented with realistic and abstract versions of the composition, which features women sitting and sleeping, while also adding and removing marginal images as he worked.",
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79925996"
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"citations": [
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1972.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (March 1973): 63-115.",
"page_number": "P. 112, #217. Reproduced: p. 90.",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25093732"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 241",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n261"
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"catalogue_raisonne": "Bloch 390; Mourlot 16",
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"creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
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"biography": "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.",
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"updated_at": "2026-04-03 13:35:09.112000"
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