The World of Picasso: Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
The World of Picasso: Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
PABLO PICASSO | FAUNE DÉVOILANT UNE FEMME (B. 230; BA. 609)
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PABLO PICASSO
1881 - 1973
FAUNE DÉVOILANT UNE FEMME (B. 230; BA. 609)
Aquatint with engraving, 1936, from 'la suite Vollard', signed in pencil, from the total edition of 310, on Montval laid paper, framed
plate: 316 by 417mm 12⅜ by 16⅜in
sheet: 337 by 445mm 13¼ by 17½in
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Brigitte Baer praised this early, dramatic work as Picasso’s “most successful print in the Suite Vollard and one of the most beautiful in the artist’s engraved work”. A modern interpretation of Rembrandt’s 1659 etching Jupiter and Antiope, this moonlit masterpiece is believed to symbolise Picasso’s evolving relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter. Baer suggests that it “looks back nostalgically on their [1936] stay in Juan-les-Pins”, where the lovers became parents (Baer, 1983, p. 98). Picasso, the amorous faun, peers adoringly upon the mother of his daughter Maya, seeing her in a new light.