Sculpteur, modèle et sculpture assise, from La Suite Vollard
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Sculpteur, modèle et sculpture assise, from La Suite Vollard
Marie-Thérèse's features and classical profile would dominate Picasso’s work for nearly a decade after their meeting in 1927, not least in the Suite Vollard, and she is ubiquitous in the largest coherent group in the series, known as the Sculptor’s Studio. These forty-six etchings, showing an artist and model working, relaxing or carousing in a studio, expand upon themes developed in two recent illustrated book projects; Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which includes the tale of a sculptor who falls in love with his creation, and Honoré de Balzac’s Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu (commissioned and published by Vollard), which relates the tale of the doomed painter Frenhofer and his struggles to capture reality in paint. Ideas surrounding transformation and metamorphosis, the contrast between the created work and reality, particularly the impossibility of making any work of art so perfect it could compete with life itself, were of profound interest to Picasso and play a significant role in the Suite.
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In addition to the catalogue description, with full margins, the sheet slightly toned, pale time staining, occasional pale foxmarks in places on the reverse (one showing through at the upper sheet edge), otherwise in good condition, framed
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Sculpteur, modèle et sculpture assise, from La Suite VollardPABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)Estimate: USD 7,000 - 10,000
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