print
- Museum number
- 2011,7096.14
- Title
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Object: Les baigneuses surprises (Startled bathers)
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Series: Vollard Suite
- Description
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Two female bathers holding on to each other, head peeping out behind pool, bust on plinth on left; plate 14 of the Vollard Suite (VS 14). 22 May 1933
Etching and drypoint
- Production date
- 1933
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres (image)
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Height: 340 millimetres (sheet size)
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Width: 265 millimetres
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Width: 447 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The nude bathers recoil in alarm at the discovery of a male head peeping over the wall of the enclosed pool. Picasso presents a light-hearted reprise of the Old Testament subject of Susanna bathing secretly watched by the elders.
The titles used are Bloch's, where they differ from Baer, Baer's titles are shown in brackets.
This print was made on 22 May 1933 in Paris.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2012 May-Sep, BM, Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite, no. 14
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2011,7096.14