Pablo Picasso (published by Ambroise Vollard)
Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1881-1973 (French art dealer and publisher, 1865-1939)
Peintre et Modele Tricotant (Painter and Model, Knitting), from Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu
1927, published 1931
Etching on wove paper
11 x 8 inches (27.94 x 20.32 centimeters)
Gift of Hans and Helen Moller, 1997.
1997.002.006

The Spaniard Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous, influential, and prolific artists of the twentieth century. He worked in many media, including painting, sculpture, and printmaking. During his long career, Picasso's style varied from representational to varied degrees of abstraction. In this etching, made in 1927 as part of a set illustrating Honoré de Balzac's Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu, he combined styles by representing a realistically rendered artist making an abstract painting of a model knitting.