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Pablo Picasso — Les baigneuses surprises (The Surprised Bathers), plate 14 from La Suite Vollard (Bl. 194, Ba. 355)
Pablo Picasso

Les baigneuses surprises (The Surprised Bathers), plate 14 from La Suite Vollard (Bl. 194, Ba. 355)

This etching from Picasso's ambitious Suite Vollard depicts a classical scene of female bathers interrupted by an intruding male figure, rendered in the artist's characteristic cubist and expressionist vocabulary. The composition combines fluid, organic forms with angular lines, creating a dynamic tension between the idealized nude figures and the distorted perspective that defies traditional representational space. Executed on fine Montval laid paper, the work exemplifies Picasso's mastery of the etching medium during this prolific period of printmaking in the 1930s.

Medium
Etching, on Montval laid paper watermarked

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Pablo Picasso, Les baigneuses surprises (The Surprised Bathers), plate 14 from La Suite Vollard (Bl. 194, Ba. 355)

This etching from Picasso's ambitious Suite Vollard depicts a classical scene of female bathers interrupted by an intruding male figure, rendered in the artist's characteristic cubist and expressionist vocabulary. The composition combines fluid, organic forms with angular lines, creating a dynamic tension between the idealized nude figures and the distorted perspective that defies traditional representational space. Executed on fine Montval laid paper, the work exemplifies Picasso's mastery of the etching medium during this prolific period of printmaking in the 1930s.

Medium
Etching, on Montval laid paper watermarked
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Classical Subject, Monochrome, Playful And Surreal, 20th Century, Modernist approach, Cubism, Figurative Abstraction, Figures, Classical, Etching, Bathers and nudes, Classical Subject Matter, Black, Etching and Aquatint, Narrative, Vollard Suite, Nude, Modern, Spanish Artist, White, Mythological, Print Series, Spanish, Figurative

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Sebastián In Situ, Richard Caswell, Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Sebastián Naranjo, Alex Capecelatro, Saul Beceiro Novo