PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette dans la nuit I, from La Suite Vollard
drypoint, on Montval paper watermark Vollard, 1934, signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with wider margins), published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939
Image: 9⁷⁄₈ x 13⁵⁄₈ in. (251 x 348 mm.)
Sheet: 13³⁄₈ x 17¹⁄₂ in. (340 x 445 mm.)

Bloch 222; Baer 434

Picasso, Braque and Léger: 20th Century Modern Masters: Exhibition of 100 Masterworks, The Forest Lawn Museum, Los Angeles, September 15, 2012 - January 1, 2013; The Oglethorpe Museum of Art, Atlanta, September 8 – December 8, 2013; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, September 24- November 27, 2016; The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York, October 6, 2019 – January 5, 2020.

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Among the concluding works in the Suite is a sequence depicting a blind Minotaur: “...the chastened Minotaur, old, pathetic and blind, is led by a young girl with the features of Marie-Thérèse, who, in the first plate, holds a bunch of flowers, while in the other three she clutches a fluttering white dove of peace. The figure of the Blind Minotaur was Picasso’s invention; it is an image that goes beyond the artist’s personal nightmare to evoke the wider political darkness threatening to engulf Europe with the rise of Fascism in Germany and Italy" (quoted in Picasso Prints - The Vollard Suite, Stephen Coppell, The British Museum Press, London, 2012, pp. 35).