id:			317612
accession number:	2018.1078
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1078
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:19.799000

Vollard Suite: Woman Leaning on Her Elbow, Back of Sculpture, and Bearded Head, 1933 (published 1939). Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Etching and sugarlift on vergé 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 © Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Woman Leaning on Her Elbow, Back of Sculpture, and Bearded Head
title in original language:	
series:				Vollard Suite
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creation date:			1933 (published 1939)
creation date earliest:		1933
creation date latest:		1933
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett
copyright:			© Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	Spain, 20th century
technique:	etching and sugarlift on vergé de Montval laid paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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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: 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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edition of the work: 	Edition of 50

support materials:


inscriptions:

	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: “TARIS [?] 3 [?] XXXIII”
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	inscription:	In graphite at lower right below plate on recto: “Picasso”
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	inscription:	In graphite at lower left on recto: “332”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Frederick Mulder, Ltd., London, England
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	James and Hanna Bartlett, Lincoln, MA
	date: 2006-2018
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 3, 2018
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fun fact:
Although Ambroise Vollard commissioned this print from Picasso in 1930, it was not printed until the 1939, the year of Vollard’s death.

digital 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 Lacourière, 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.

wall description:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Geiser, Bernhard and Brigitte Baer. <em>Picasso, peintre-graveur: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1932-1934</em>, vol. 2 (Bern: Editions Kornfeld, 1933-68)
	page number: 	p. 169, ill. no. 343
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	Bloch, Georges. <em>Pablo Picasso, Catalogue de l’œuvre gravé, 1904-1967</em>, vol. 1 (Bern: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1975)
	page number: 	ill. no. 184
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	Peters, Emily and Salsbury, Britany. “Acquisitions 2018: Prints and Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 20-23.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 23.
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