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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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Author:

Andral, Jean-Louis (Andral, Jean-Louis)

Author:

Casadio, Francesca (Casadio, Francesca)

Author:

Dahm, Kristi (Dahm, Kristi)

Subjects

artists:

Picasso, Pablo

dates:

1940-1949

museums and institutions:

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

sources:

Petrarca, Francesco / Aragon, Louis

subjects:

Technical analysis / Scanning macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) spectroscopy / Infrared photography / overpainting / Gouaches / Iconography / Fauns / Flowers

subjects:

French art

Illustrations

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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.

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Centaurs, Fauns, Female Fauns, and Satyrs among the Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo

06/1974 | 855 | 116

Pages: i-xxviii

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Subjects

artists:

Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico

dates:

1700-1799

places:

Italy / Venice / France / Paris

private galleries:

Galerie Cailleux, Paris, France

subjects:

Italian painting / Classical mythology / Drawings

subjects:

Centaurs / Fauns / Satyrs

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Exhibitions

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. No.15 - N&D a5. (Messrs. Cailleux, Paris.)

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10. No.8 - C b4. (British Museum.)

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11. No.7 - C b3. (British Museum.)

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12. No.7 - C b3a. (Formerly Palazzo Valmarana-Trento.)

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13. No.9 - C b5. (Uffizi, Florence.)

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14. No.9 - C b5a. (Tiepolo House, Zianigo.)

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15. No.11 - N&D a1. (Robert Lehman Collection, New York.)

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16. No.13 - N&D a3. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

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17. No.13 - N&D a3a. (Mme H. Gross Collection, Paris.)

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18. No.14 - N&D a4. (University Art Museum, Princeton.)

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19. No.21 - N&D b3. (Present Whereabouts Unknown.)

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2. No.30 - N&D d2. (Messrs. Cailleux, Paris.)

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20. No.19 - N&D b1. (Boerner Collection, Düsseldorf.)

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21. No.19 - N&D b1a. (Ca' Rezzonico, Venice.)

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22. No.24 - N&D c1. (R. V. Collection, Paris.)

Attributed works:

23. No.22 - N&D b4. (Musée Fabre, Montpellier.)

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24. No.23 - N&D b5. (Robert Lehman Collection, New York.)

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25. N&D c2. (Albertina, Vienna.)

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26. No.26 - N&D c3. (R. V. Collection, Paris.)

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27. No.28 - N&D c5. (Witt Collection, London.)

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28. No.31 - N&D d3. (National Museum, Warsaw.)

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29. No.33 - N&D d5. (Present Whereabouts Unknown.)

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3. No.1 - C a1. (Uffizi, Florence.)

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30. No.34 - N&D d6. (R. V. Collection, Paris.)

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31. No.36 - N&D d8. (R. V. Collection, Paris.)

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32. No.35 - N&D d7. (National Museum, Warsaw.)

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33. No.37 - C&F a1. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

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34. No.38 - C&F a2. (British Museum.)

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35. No.39 - C&F a3. (University Art Museum, Princeton.)

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36. No.41 - C&F b2. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

Attributed works:

37. No.40 - C&F b1. (British Museum.)

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38. No.43 - C&F b4. (Albertina, Vienna.)

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39. No.45 - C&F b6. (Formerly Italico Brass Collection, Venice.)

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4. No.2 - C a2. (Uffizi, Florence.)

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40. No.42 - C&F b3. (W. H. Schab Collection, New York.)

Attributed works:

41. No.44 - C&F b5. (Formerly Italico Brass Collection, Venice.)

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42. No.49 - C&F c1. (Formerly Rudolf Collection, London.)

Attributed works:

43. No.48 - C&F b9. (R. V. Collection, Paris.)

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44. No.51 - C&F c3. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

Attributed works:

45. No.51 - C&F c3a. (Ca'Rezzonico, Venice.)

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46. No.46 - C&F b7. (British Museum.)

Attributed works:

47. No.52 - C&F c4. (National Gallery of Victoria.)

Attributed works:

48. No.53 - C&F c5. (Los Angeles County Museum.)

Attributed works:

49. No.52 - C&F c4a. (Formerly Ca'Rezzonico, Venice.)

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5. No.3 - C a3. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

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50. No.54 - C&F c6. (British Museum.)

Attributed works:

51. No.54 - C&F c6a. (Ca'Rezzonico, Venice.)

Attributed works:

52. No.55 - C&F c7. (University Art Museum, Princeton.)

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53. No.56 - C&F c8. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

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54. No.57 - C&F c9. (Paul Drey Gallery, New York.)

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55. No.58 - C&F c10. (British Museum.)

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56. No.65 - C&F c17. (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.)

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57. No.64 - C&F c16. (Private Collection, Venice.)

Attributed works:

58. No.66 - C&F d1. (University Art Museum, Princeton.)

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59. No.71 - C&S a3. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

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6. No.5 - C b1. (Uffizi, Florence.)

Attributed works:

60. No.73 - C&S a5. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

Attributed works:

61. No.67 - C&F d2. (University Art Museum, Princeton.)

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62. No.68 - C&F d3. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

Attributed works:

63. No.68 - C&F d3a. (Ca'Rezzonico, Venice.)

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64. No.68 - C&F d3b. (Formerly Messrs. Cailleux, Paris.)

Attributed works:

65. No.69 - C&S a1. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

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66. No.72 - C&S a4. (Robert Lehman Collection, New York.)

Attributed works:

67. No.74 - C&S b1. (British Museum.)

Attributed works:

68. No.79 - FS b1. (Formerly Priv. Coll. Milan.)

Attributed works:

69. No.70 - C&S a2. (National Museum, Warsaw.)

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7. No.4 - C a4. (Shickman Gallery, New York.)

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70. No.75 - C&S b2. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.)

Attributed works:

71. No.78 - FS a1. (British Museum.)

Attributed works:

72. No.80 - FS b2. (Italico Brass Collection, Venice.)

Attributed works:

73. No.84 - FS c2. (Private Collection.)

Attributed works:

74. No.83 - FS c1. (Formerly Italico Brass Collection, Venice.)

Attributed works:

75. No.85 - FS c3. (Uffizi, Florence.)

Attributed works:

76. No.87 - FS c5. (Robert Lehman Collection, New York.)

Attributed works:

77. No.90 - FS c8. (Formerly Bevilacqua-La Masa Collection, Venice.)

Attributed works:

78. No.86 - FS c4. (Uffizi, Florence.)

Attributed works:

79. No.91 - FS c9. (Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris.)

Attributed works:

8. No.4 - C a4a. (Clark Institute, Williamstown.)

Attributed works:

80. No.93 - FS c11. (Robert Lehman Collection, New York.)

Attributed works:

81. No.92 - FS c10. (Slatkin Galleries, New York.)

Attributed works:

82. No.94 - FS c12. (Private Collection, New York.)

Attributed works:

83. No.95 - FS c13. (Private Collection, Hamden, Conn. U. S. A.)

Attributed works:

84. No.94 - FS c12a. (Ca'Rezzonico, Venice.)

Attributed works:

85. No.98 - FS c16. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

Attributed works:

86. No.99 - FS d1. (Private Collection, Venice.)

Attributed works:

87. No.100 - FS d2. (Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris.)

Attributed works:

88. No.100 - FS d2a. (Formerly Cailleux Collection, Paris.)

Attributed works:

9. No.6 - C b2. (University Art Museum, Princeton.)

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