Coupling (plate, page 17) from Corps perdu

Pablo Picasso · 1949, published 1950

Here we have Coupling (plate, page 17) from Corps perdu — an illustrated book by Picasso, nineteen forty-nine, published nineteen fifty. The piece is engraving from an illustrated book with twenty engravings, ten aquatints (one with drypoint), one drypoint, and one etching (including wrapper front), about 29 by 21 centimeters.

Medium Engraving from an illustrated book with twenty engravings, ten aquatints (one with drypoint), one drypoint, and one etching (including wrapper front) · Dimensions composition (irreg.): 11 7/16 × 8 5/16" (29 × 21.1 cm); sheet: 15 3/8 × 11 1/8" (39 × 28.2 cm) · Credit The Louis E. Stern Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 520: Face in Profile (plate, page 21) from Corps perdu, African Sculpture

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Laocoön, Spider, Untitled (Study for The Inner World), Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, Constellation with Red Object, Plate (page 17) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)

More by Pablo Picasso here: She-Goat, Goat Skull and Bottle, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Boy Leading a Horse, Two Nudes, Woman Plaiting Her Hair