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Picasso’s ‘Faun musician’: revealing the making, contextualising the meaning
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 246-253
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Andral, Jean-Louis (Andral, Jean-Louis)
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Casadio, Francesca (Casadio, Francesca)
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Dahm, Kristi (Dahm, Kristi)
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1. Detail of Fig.3.
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10. Infra-red reflectogram (IRR) composite image of Fig.3 (1.5-1.73 μm).
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11. Fig.10 with the black ink of the faun removed digitally, showing a vase of flowers beneath.
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12. Head, 6 June, 1947, by Pablo Picasso. 1947. Coloured crayon on the page opposite the colophon of the book Cinq sonnets de Pétrarque / avec une eau-forte de / Picasso / et les explications du traducteur, each page 33.4 by 25.7 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Photomicrograph of The faun musician (bottom), showing orange and pink media from an earlier composition visible through losses in the uppermost black ink layer.
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3. The faun musician, by Pablo Picasso. 7th–11th June 1947. Brush and black ink and gouache on cream wove paper, folded, 32.7 by 50.2 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; © 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).
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4. Head of a woman – Françoise, by Pablo Picasso. 1945. Etching, aquatint and engraving on Arches wove paper, plate 13.9 by 11.9 cm., sheet (irreg.) 32 by 24.8 cm. (From Cinq Sonnets de Pétrarque, plate, fol.6.; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Scala; © 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).
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5. Vase with foliage and three sea urchins, by Pablo Picasso. 21st October 1946. Oleoresinous enamel paint and charcoal on paper mounted on reused canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Musée Picasso, Antibes; © imageArt; photograph Claude Germain; © Succession Picasso 2022; DACS, London, 2022).
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6. The faun musician, by Pablo Picasso, open folio as it originally appeared as a frontispiece opposite the title page to Cinq Sonnets de Pétrarque. (© 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).
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7. Detail of a photograph by Michel Sima, showing ceramics and drawings by Pablo Picasso at the Atelier Madoura, Vallauris. 1948. (© Michel Sima Héritiers; Bridgeman Images).
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8. MA-XRF composite map of Fig.3, showing Prussian blue crayon (blue), gouache media containing titanium white (red) and cerulean blue gouache (green).
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9. Raking-light image of the verso of Fig.3, flipped horizontally.