Poblo Picasso (1881-1973)
Minotaur Caresses a Sleeping Woman
18 June 1933, Boisgeloup; plate reworked probably at end of 1934
Drypoint
Signed in pencil. Dated in reverse on the plate: 'Boisgeloup 18 Juin XXXIII'
8 May 2012
Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite at BRITISH MUSEUM
Crouching over the sleeping woman, the Minotaur is both brutal presence and a tender lover. In 1943 Picasso remarked to his lover Francoise Gilot, to whom he showed the Vollard Suite etchings: 'He's studying her, trying to read her thoughts...trying to decide whether she loves him because he's a monster...It's hard to say whether he wants to wake her or kill her'.
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