Blind Minotaur Led by Marie-Thérèse with a Dove in a Starry Night (Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au pigeon dans une nuit étoilée)
1934
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dark-manner aquatint in black with scraping, burnishing, and drypoint on wove Arches paper [proof]
Dimensions
plate: 24.7 x 34.8 cm (9 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.) sheet: 31.7 x 45.6 cm (12 1/2 x 17 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund
Accession Number
1996.104.2
About the Artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso in Málaga, Spain, was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art professor who served as his first teacher. From age seven, Picasso trained under his father in figure drawing and oil painting, mastering naturalistic techniques by copying mas...