Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
The Bull [Third State]
Alternate Title:
Le Taureau
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Pablo Picasso (Spanish printmaker, 1881-1973)
Location:
repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP3334
Location Note:
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date:
December 18, 1945 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Modernist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
lithograph
Classification:
Prints
Material:
printers ink on paper
Technique:
lithography
Measurements:
32.6 cm (height) x 44.3 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; animal; bulls; printmaking
Description:
Created with pen and wash with scratching in the stone, third state, artist's proof pulled by Mourlot. Part of a series on bulls which vividly demonstrates the kind of experimentation with lithography that Picasso undertook at the Fernand Mourlot print workshop in Paris after World War II. Twenty years later, Picasso had produced over 400 lithographs for Mourlot as a way of exploring his creative process, making a print in 15 to 20 different states and watching its evolution before creating a finished product. (Source: Le Fur, Yves, ed.; Through the Eyes of Picasso: Face to Face with African and Oceanic Art, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2017 (978-2-08-020319-9))
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-TB 45-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

The Bull [Third State]