Pensive Boy Watching a Sleeping Woman by Candlelight, from the Vollard Suite

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Title

Pensive Boy Watching a Sleeping Woman by Candlelight, from the Vollard Suite

Place

Spain (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1934

Medium

Etching, aquatint and engraving, with scraping and burnishing, on copper in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 23.8 × 29.7 cm (9 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 33.8 × 44.6 cm (13 5/16 × 17 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Merrill Chase Galleries

Reference Number

1979.677

Copyright

© 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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