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"tombstone": "Vollard Suite: Woman Leaning on Her Elbow, Back of Sculpture, and Bearded Head, 1933 (published 1939). Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881\u20131973). Etching and sugarlift on verg\u00e9 de Montval laid paper; image: 37.6 x 29.3 cm (14 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.); sheet: 49.6 x 38.2 cm (19 1/2 x 15 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett, 2018.1078. \u00a9 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Woman Leaning on Her Elbow, Back of Sculpture, and Bearded Head",
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"measurements": "Image: 37.6 x 29.3 cm (14 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 49.6 x 38.2 cm (19 1/2 x 15 1/16 in.)",
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"inscription": "Watermark: At lower right: woman with scarf above head (Montval)",
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"inscription": "Printed at lower right of plate in reverse on recto: \u201cTARIS [?] 3 [?] XXXIII\u201d",
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"inscription": "In graphite at lower right below plate on recto: \u201cPicasso\u201d",
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"inscription": "In graphite at lower left on recto: \u201c332\u201d",
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"did_you_know": "Although Ambroise Vollard commissioned this print from Picasso in 1930, it was not printed until the 1939, the year of Vollard\u2019s death.",
"description": "This print belongs to a series of 100 that the dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned from Picasso during the 1930s. Picasso worked with master printer Roger Lacouri\u00e8re, experimenting with a range of etching techniques. Many of the prints, such as this one, feature a stark, linear style evocative of classical art that Picasso favored during this period. Here, a nude sculpture and heavily bearded face further suggest ancient Greece.",
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"citation": "Geiser, Bernhard and Brigitte Baer. Picasso, peintre-graveur: catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019oeuvre grav\u00e9 et des monotypes, 1932-1934, vol. 2 (Bern: Editions Kornfeld, 1933-68)",
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"citation": "Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso, Catalogue de l\u2019\u0153uvre grav\u00e9, 1904-1967, vol. 1 (Bern: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1975)",
"page_number": "ill. no. 184",
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"citation": "Peters, Emily and Salsbury, Britany. \u201cAcquisitions 2018: Prints and Drawings.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 20-23.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 23.",
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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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