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Jeune sculpteur au travail (Jeune sculpteur finissant un plâtre) (Young sculptor at work (Young sculptor finishing a plaster)) / Vollard Suite

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  2011,7096.46

• Title (object)

  • Jeune sculpteur au travail (Jeune sculpteur finissant un plâtre) (Young sculptor at work (Young sculptor finishing a plaster))

  Title (series)

  • Vollard Suite

• Description

  Male figure with flowers in hair sculpting a female head; plate 46 of the Vollard Suite (VS 46). 23 March 1933
  Etching

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Pablo Picasso

• School/style

  • Spanish
  • French

• Date

  • 1933

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 447 millimetres (sheet size)
  • Width: 340 millimetres
  • Height: 265 millimetres (image)
  • Width: 194 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Dated in reverse on plate: 'Paris 23 Mars XXXIII'

• Curator's comments

  The titles used are Bloch's, where they differ from Baer, Baer's titles are shown in brackets.
  This print was made on 23 March 1933 in Paris

• Bibliography

  • Bloch 1974-9 156
  • Baer 1986-96 309.Bd

• Location

  Not on display (Spanish XXc Mounted Roy)

• Exhibition history

  2012 May-Sep, BM, Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite, no. 46

• Acquisition name

  • Funded by: Hamish Parker
  • In Memory of: Major Horace Parker
  • Purchased from: Marc Rosen
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Ambroise Vollard
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Henri Marie Petiet

• Acquisition date

  2011

• Acquisition notes

  Purchased from Mark Rosen Fine Art acting on behalf of the heirs of Henri Petiet. Credit line on labels etc, but not mounts to read: 'Presented by the Hamish Parker Charitable Trust in memory of Major Horace Parker'.

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  2011,7096.46