Venus et Amour
by Pablo Picasso
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Executed 1918
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Oil on stucco laid down on canvas mounted on board
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No visible signature
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55 x 32-3/4 inches
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Ebonized frame
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Details
Literature:
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1917 à 1919, vol. III, Paris, 1949, no. 230, illustrated pl. 80 The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, From Cubism to Neoclassicism 1917-1919, San Francisco, 1995, no. 18-134, illustrated p. 136
Provenance:
Available up on request
About the artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) School of Paris painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist and designer, who has had enormous influence on 20th century art and worked in an unprecedented variety of styles. Born at Malaga, Spain, son of an art teacher. His family moved to Barcelona, where he entered the School of Fine Arts 1895; then entered Madrid Academy 1897. Early showed great precocity. First visited Paris in autumn 1900, returned in 1901 when he had his first Paris one-man exhibition at the Galerie Vollard.