About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
written by Ovid (Italian, 43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
printed by Louis Fort (French, 19th-20th centuries)
published by Albert Skira (Swiss, 1904-1973)

Deucalion and Pyrrha Create the New Human Race, from Les Métamorphoses, September 20, 1930, published 1931

Etching on ivory Japanese paper
278 x 170 mm (image); 310 x 222 mm (plate); 325 x 250 mm (sheet)
Given in memory of A. Peter Dewey, 1946.65.2

Baer & Geiser 144 only state, b; Bloch 100; Geiser 144 only state, b

© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York