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Faun unveiling a sleeping woman
(Faune dévoilant une dormeuse)
1936
plate 27 from The Vollard Suite 1930–37

Medium
sugar aquatint, scraper and engraving

Measurements
31.4 × 41.5 cm (image) 31.7 × 41.6 cm (plate) 34.0 × 44.8 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1955
© Pablo Picasso/Sussession Pablo Picasso. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Baer 609.VI.B.d; Block 230

Edition
edition of 250, 6th of 6 states

Printing/Publishing
printed by Roger Lacourière, Paris; published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Picasso (underlined)
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: 387
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse l.r.: 29 (in a circle)

Accession Number
3268-4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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