print
- Museum number
- 2014,PDLoan.3
- Title
- Object: Portrait de Jeune Fille, d'après Cranach le Jeune.II
- Description
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Woman with hands clasped, wearing sixteenth-century dress, after the 1564 painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; working proof, Baer's second state of two of 'Premier plateau : le Bistre', just visible is a head outlined in black, remnants of 'Exposition de Céramiques Vallauris Pâques - 1958' (Baer 1047). 1958
Linocut printed in bistre ink, printed on the back of a poster
- Production date
- 1958
- Dimensions
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Height: 635 millimetres (image)
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Height: 800 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 530 millimetres (image)
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Width: 570 millimetres (sheet)
- Curator's comments
- Baer records one impression of this state. However, as Baer does not mention an impression on poster paper, at least one additional impression must have been printed and not seen by Baer. A number of working proofs of 'Portrait de jeune Fille, d'après Cranach le Jeune.II' were printed on the reverse of posters because it was one of the first linocuts Picasso worked on. The artist, then unsure whether Galerie Louise Leiris would cover the costs of his new artistic experiment, asked the printer not to spend money on quality paper and to consequently print some of the working/trial proofs on old posters.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2014,PDLoan.3
