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Maker(s):Picasso, Pablo; Fort, Louis (printed by)
Culture:Spanish (Picasso 1881 - 1973)
Title:Peintre devant son tableau (Painter Before His Painting); Plate XI from Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece)
Date Made:1927 plate; 1931 print
Type:Print
Materials:etching printed in black on Van Gelder wove paper
Place Made:France; Paris
Measurements:plate: 10 15/16 in x 7 5/8 in; 27.78125 cm x 19.3675 cm; sheet: 19 15/16 in x 15 1/8 in; 50.64125 cm x 38.4175 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed in ink at lower right: Picasso, inscribed in ink at lower left: 2/99
Accession Number:  SC 1970.18.18
Credit Line:Gift of Selma Erving, class of 1927
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
depiction of nude woman on a canvas on the upper left, wearing a wrap around her head, body facing forward, and head turned to the right; head and left arm of bearded man, the artist, on right, touching the lower part of the canvas with his paintbrush and looking up at the woman's head.

Subjects:
Etching

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