About this artwork
This etching and engraving titled Minotauromachia, or “Battle of the Minotaur,” depicts a complex scene: The titular Minotaur enters at right, while a bearded man climbs a ladder to the left. In between them, a girl holds a candle aloft in an attempt to blind the massive Minotaur. A wounded female bullfighter lies across a horse at center, the animal’s insides empty on the ground. Two women accompanied by doves look down onto the encounter from a window. This enigmatic scene is among Picasso’s most celebrated etchings, sensitively inked and printed by Roger Lacourière.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Pablo Picasso
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Title
- Minotauromachia
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1935
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Medium
- Etching, with scraping and engraving, on copper in black on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 49.5 × 69.1 cm (19 1/2 × 27 1/4 in.); Sheet: 57.4 × 77.1 cm (22 5/8 × 30 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Helen Pauling Donnelley
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Reference Number
- 1947.160
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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