print
- Museum number
- 2011,7096.97
- Title
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Object: Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette dans la nuit (Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au pigeon dans une nuit étoilée) (Blind Minotaur led by a little girl in the night (Blind Minotaur guided through a starry night by Marie-Thérèse with a pigeon))
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Series: Vollard Suite
- Description
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Blind Minotaur being led by a little girl (resembling Marie-Thérèse) with a dove in a starry night; plate 97 of the Vollard Suite (VS 97). 3-7 December and 31 December 1934
Aquatint worked with scraper to resemble mezzotint, drypoint and engraving
- Production date
- 1934
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres (image)
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Height: 340 millimetres (sheet size)
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Width: 345 millimetres
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Width: 447 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The titles used are Bloch's, where they differ from Baer, Baer's titles are shown in brackets.
This print was made between 3-7 December and 31 December 1934 in Paris.
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The Minotaur, the half-man, half-bull of classical legend, became for Picasso a personal emblem of animal passion. In this dramatic scene the once powerful Minotaur is reduced to a blind and pathetic figure led by an innocent child in the darkness of the night.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2012 May-Sep, BM, Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite, no. 97
2023 05 Apr-2 Oct, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Il MANN e Picasso
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2011,7096.97