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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Picasso, Pablo Creator Nationality: European; Iberian; Spanish Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1881 - 1973 Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Málaga, Spain Creator Death Place: Mougins, France Creator Name-CRT: Pablo Picasso Title: L'Egyptienne Title Type: Foreign Title: The Egyptian Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1953 Creation End Date: 1953 Creation Date: 1953 Object Type: Prints Materials and Techniques: aquatint Dimensions: Sheet: 91cm x 63.6cm, Platemark: 83.2cm x 47.3cm AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1997.142 Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund Copyright: ? Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Rights: http://www.arsny.com Provenance: Heirs of the printer, Roget LaCouriere Context: During his 70-year career Pablo Picasso produced about 2,500 prints---a commitment to printmaking unmatched by any other 20th-century master. Incredibly inventive in each medium with which he worked, he learned sugarlift aquatint from the greatest intaglio pinter of the time, Rober Lacourière. A mixture of sugar syrup and ink is used to draw on a copper plate. When dry, the entire plate is covered with a varnish that is impervious to acid and put in warm water. As the sugar melts, it lifts the varnish off, exposing the copper plate where the artist has drawn. These areas are then aquatinted; fine particles of acid-resistant resin are deposited on the plate and heated so they adhere to the surface. Next, the plate is immersed in acid, which bites into the plate in tiny pools around each particle. When the plate is printed, the resulting image resembles a freely executed, grainy wash drawing with rich blacks and subtle gray tones.Picasso's prints are often autobiographical, forming an intimate visual diary of his thoughts and experiences. The Egyptian is a portrait of Françoise Gilot who appeared in his work repeatedly after the artist met her in 1943. In this image he abstracted the figure developing such ideas as describing the subject from multiple points of view simultaneously. This is a particularly beautiful impression, a proof made before the edition of 50 was printed. AMICA ID: CMA_.1997.142 AMICA Library Year: 2000 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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