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Flowers in a Vase

A work made of pen and brown-black ink on buff wove ledger paper.
© 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of pen and brown-black ink on buff wove ledger paper.

Date:

1935

Artist:

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973

About this artwork

This drawing was made during the year Picasso stopped painting to focus instead on printmaking and drawing. He would later cite this year as the “worst time of his life,” as he was embroiled in a personal crisis: his mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, was pregnant, and his wife, Olga, was leaving him. The dark line work surrounding this bouquet might be reflective of the stress the artist was experiencing at the time.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Title

Flowers in a Vase

Place

Spain (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1935

Medium

Pen and brown-black ink on buff wove ledger paper

Dimensions

Sheet, folded: 20.8 × 13.5 cm (8 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.); Sheet, unfolded: 20.8 × 27 cm (8 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.1003

Copyright

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

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