id: 161635
accession number: 2000.20
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.20
updated: 2025-02-09 05:40:45.345000
Vollard Suite: Minotaur Caressing a Sleeping Woman, 1933. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Drypoint; sheet: 38.5 x 50.1 cm (15 3/16 x 19 3/4 in.); platemark: 29.6 x 36.5 cm (11 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2000.20 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Vollard Suite: Minotaur Caressing a Sleeping Woman
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creation date: 1933
creation date earliest: 1933
creation date latest: 1933
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: drypoint
department: Prints
collection: PR - Drypoint
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Bloch I.68.201; Baer II.137.369
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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.
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measurements: Sheet: 38.5 x 50.1 cm (15 3/16 x 19 3/4 in.); Platemark: 29.6 x 36.5 cm (11 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.)
state of the work: IIIb / IIIc
edition of the work: 50 on large paper, 260 on small
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description: medium weight handmade laid paper with watermark of a mermaid enclosed in a circle
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inscription: signed in graphite
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints
opening date: 2000-09-17T00:00:00
From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).
title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000. "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints."', 'opening_date': '2000-09-17T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA (organizer). Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea: Dec. 18, 2006 - March 31, 2007; Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea: Apr. 7 - May 20, 2007: "Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2007-04-07T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” June 19, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
page number: Mentioned: p. 2
url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4343
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