Boy and sleeping girl by candlelight
(Garçon et dormeuse à la chandelle)
1934; printed 1939
plate 26 from The Vollard Suite 1930–37
- Medium
- etching, scraper, engraving and aquatint
- Measurements
- 23.7 × 29.8 cm (plate) 34.2 × 44.9 cm irreg. (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Geiser/Baer 440.B.d; Bloch 226
- Edition
- edition of 260, 3rd of 3 states
- Printing/Publishing
- printed by Roger Lacourière, Paris; published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil l.r.: Picasso (underlined)
inscribed in pencil l.l.: 385
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.: 39 (in a circle) / 9208
- Accession Number
- P28-1969
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1969
© Pablo Picasso/Sussession Pablo Picasso. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
- Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
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Human Figures Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
-
bedrooms candles nudity repose (activity) sleeping youth (people)
