Picasso the Sculptor - ACE017.2

Photograph of Pablo Picasso. Commentary on his hands, with images from the photograph, bronze Bras Verticale (1959), Cast of Picasso’s Hand photographed by Brassaï (1944), and Blind Minotaur Guided by a Young Girl With Flowers / Minotaur aveugle guidé par une fillette I (1934). Mask of a Blind Singer / Masque d’un chanteur aveugle (1903), Head of Picador with a Broken Nose / Tête de picador (1903). Commentary talks about Picasso’s interest in texture. La coiffure (Étude) (1906); bronze of same subject, Femme se coiffant (1906). One of the drawings from the Man With Sheep / L’Homme au Mouton series; details of the bronze version (1943). Bronze Flayed Head (Death’s Head) / La Tête de Mort (1943). Bronze Pregnant Woman / La femme enceinte (1950-1959); The Orator / L’Orateur (1937), clay with pattern imprinted on it; photograph of Picasso with same piece. Head of a Warrior / Tête casquée (1933) alongside several early 1930s Tête de femme / Head of a Woman, modelled in plaster then cast in bronze, which have "a condensation of all female sensuality and magic". Photograph of same. Nu debout de profil (1907); Figure (1907), roughly chiselled from a block of wood. A pencil study for Tête de femme (Fernande) (1909); the sculpture. Painting. Cubist construction, Mandoline et clarinette / Mandolin and Clarinet (1913), Guitare / Guitar (1912-1913), Guitar (1914), Violon et bouteille sur une table (1915), Guitar (1924). Commentary says that these constructions came at the same time "as the invention of collage". Pipe, verre et bouteille de rhum (1914). Still Life (1914). Verre et paquet de tabac (1921). The Absinthe Glass (1914), the only example of "a Cubist object made in the round". Wire Figure (1928) and its shadow, "walls and a window, enclosing a human figure, all made of empty space". La femme au jardin (1929), made from welded scrap metal. Tête d’une femme (1929-1930), part of which is an old colander. Charcoal drawing Sculpture d’une tête (Marie-Thérèse) (1932): Picasso "dismembers and reconstructs the human head…": Tête de femme / Head of a Woman (1931).