Artwork Details
7-5/8 x 10-7/8 in. (image) 9-3/4 x 12-3/4 in. (sheet)
Accession NumberCarl H. Lieber Memorial Fund
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color Palette(Ferdinand Roten, Baltimore, Maryland); Purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1961.
Balzac's story allowed Picasso to delve into one of his favorite, recurrent themes-the artist in his studio.
Picasso was an inspired choice by Vollard to illustrate Balzac's story. The tale of an artist moving progressively from representation to abstraction in the nineteenth century strangely prefigured Picasso's progress in the early twentieth.
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