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Marie-Thérèse rêvant de métamorphoses: elle-même et le sculpteur buvant avec un jeune acteur grec jouant le rôle du Minotaure

Print
1933 (drawn), 1939 (published)
Artist/Maker
Pablo Picasso (artist)
Place of origin
Normandy (Designed and printed)

Print of the Minotaur seated with three women and a man holding a glass. Signed and dated.

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Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Marie-Thérèse rêvant de métamorphoses: elle-même et le sculpteur buvant avec un jeune acteur grec jouant le rôle du Minotaure (assigned by artist)
  • Vollard Suite (series title)
  • Marie-Thérèse Dreaming of Metamorphoses: Herself and the Sculptor Drinking with a Young Greek Actor Playing the Role of Minotaur (alternative title)
  • Vollard Suite (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching with drypoint
Printing Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Etching
Drypoint
Brief description
'Marie-Thérèse rêvant de métamorphoses: elle-même et le sculpteur buvant avec un jeune acteur grec jouant le rôle du Minotaure', etching by Pablo Picasso, 1933, from a set of 100 for the 'Vollard Suite', published by Ambroise Vollard, 1939.
Physical description
Print of the Minotaur seated with three women and a man holding a glass. Signed and dated.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 298mm
  • Image width: 368mm
  • Sheet height: 338mm
  • Sheet width: 446mm
Dimensions from catalogue: 29.8 x 36.8 cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Boisgeloup 18 juin XXXIII' (Dated in reverse)
  • 'Picasso' (Signed in pencil)
Object history
The year this print was conceived, Picasso produced many preparatory studies on the theme of the minotaur. Key to his 'minotauromachy' was the physical similarity between this mythological beast and the bull, with which he had a longstanding fascination
Subjects depicted
Drinking Glasses
Minotaur
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO, 1964
  • Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie, Vol. I, 1904-1967, Vol. II, 1966-1069, Berne, 1968, 1971. Bloch 200
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.49-1961

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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