"Présence" (chapter title, page 13) from Corps perdu

Pablo Picasso · 1949, published 1950

This is "Présence" (chapter title, page 13) from Corps perdu — an illustrated book by Picasso, nineteen forty-nine, published nineteen fifty. Aquatint from an illustrated book with twenty engravings, ten aquatints (one with drypoint), one drypoint, and one etching (including wrapper front) — about 32 by 23 centimeters. In the picture, look for the group of people.

Medium Aquatint from an illustrated book with twenty engravings, ten aquatints (one with drypoint), one drypoint, and one etching (including wrapper front) · Dimensions composition (irreg.): 12 3/8 × 9 3/16" (31.5 × 23.4 cm); sheet: 15 3/8 × 11 1/8" (39 × 28.2 cm) · Credit The Louis E. Stern Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 520: African Play, IV, Disks in Echelon

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Market, Flower Market, Study for the mural Day of the Dead: The Offering at the Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico City (Estudio para el mural Día de Muertos: La Ofrenda en la Secretaría de Educación Pública, Ciudad de México), Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled, Untitled

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