Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Baboon with Young
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Baboon with Young
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Image View:
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Overall view from back and side, showing the tail made from an automobile spring
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Creator:
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish sculptor, 1881-1973)
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Location:
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repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP342
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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1951 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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assemblage (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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plaster; ceramic; two model cars; metal
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Technique:
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assemblage (sculpture technique); modeling (forming)
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Measurements:
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56 cm (height) x 34 cm (width) x 71 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; animal; found objects
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Description:
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Created in Vallauris in October of 1951. This is the original assemblage from which bronze copies were later cast. Her face was formed from two toy cars, one upright, the other turned upside down that Picasso had borrowed from his son Claude, and her tail was an automobile spring. The baboon's ears were made from cup handles, and her round belly was a large jug whose handles form the shape of her shoulders. As a sculptor, Picasso pioneered the technique of assemblage, constructing works partly or entirely of "found" objects, both natural and man-made. (Source: Musée Picasso-Paris [website]; http://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-BWY-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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