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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette, II
Blind minotaur guided by a girl, II
Pablo Picasso
Medium
Etching on Montval laid paper
Dimensions
Printed area size: 23,5 × 29,5 cm
Paper size: 34 × 45 cm
Inventory
FM001695
Date
23.10.1934
1934
Author
Born: Málaga, 1881
Died: Mougins, Francia, 1973
Prints
Series:
Suite Vollard (Pablo Picasso)
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© Pablo Picasso. Succession Pablo Picasso. VEGAP, Madrid, 2022

Descripción

After a stay in Barcelona in the summer of 1934, Picasso made a series of works with the theme of the Blind Minotaur, an allegory of the death of the Minotaur that appears in three etchings and an aquatint of the Vollard Suite: Blind Minotaur guided by a girl I, II and III and Blind Minotaur guided by a girl at night.

In this picture, the Minotaur, an old and helpless animal-man who leans on a cane, is guided by a girl. The scene takes place outdoors; in the background, some individuals fish on a boat. On the right, a young man dressed in a striped T-shirt — perhaps the young Picasso himself contemplating the old man — attends the scene.

Beyond any other interpretation, the Minotaur seems to express man's destiny, his existential condition. It should not be forgotten that, on August 19, 1934, Hitler was ratified as Führer of the German nation, an event that must have made a dent in a committed artist like Picasso.

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© Pablo Picasso. Succession Pablo Picasso. VEGAP, Madrid, 2022

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