The Frog (Les Grenouilles)
1936
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View on museum website →Medium
lift-ground aquatint and etching with scraping and burnishing on Japanese vellum (torinoko)
Dimensions
image: 26.67 × 20.96 cm (10 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Donald Stone
Accession Number
2022.40.74
Art Historical Context
### The Frog (Les Grenouilles) in 1936, *The Frog (Les Grenilles)* is a captivating print by Pablo Picasso, the revolutionary artist renowned for Cubism and his profound influence across modern art movements, including Surrealism. work captures Picasso during a prolific period of printmaking experimentation, amid the turbulent prelude to the Spanish Civil War Produced as part of his exploration into graphic arts, it exemplifies his ability to translate bold imagination paper with technical precision. The medium—lift-ground aquatint and etching with scraping and burnishing on Japanese vellum...
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...