Sculptor and Model Viewing a Statue, Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso, Sculptor and Model Viewing a Statue
Pablo Picasso, Sculptor and Model Viewing a Statue
Pablo Picasso
Sculptor and Model Viewing a Statue
1933
Pablo Picasso
1881–1973
Sculptor and Model Viewing a Statue, 1933
Portfolio/Series title: The Vollard Suite
Where object was made: Spain
Material/technique: drypoint
Dimensions:
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 449 x 183 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 318 x 330 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 17 11/16 x 7 3/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 12 1/2 x 13 0.9921 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase through The Kansas University Endowment Association
Accession number: 1956.0015
Not on display
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Archive Label 2003: The Vollard Suite is a portfolio of 100 prints put together to satisfy a contract with the publisher, Ambroise Vollard, after Picasso had already created them between the years 1930 and 1936. The only recognizable theme to the collection is that of exploring the question of what it means to be an artist. That question was a crucial one for many artists in the 1930s, as fascism was outlawing and destroying so much progressive artwork and banning artists from producing further images. Picasso spent World War II in Paris, but he reacted strongly to the war-time atrocities happening in his native land of Spain. The bombing massacre of the small Spanish Basque town of Guernica in 1937 spurred the artist to create a huge mural of the intense pain and suffering arbitrarily visited upon an innocent population. Picasso chose to remain in Paris through the worst times of deprivation and during the German occupation of the city, beginning in 1940. He was closely watched by the invading army, but managed to continue painting in his own studio.