Bather, Design for a Monument (Dinard)
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1928Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (24.1 x 16.2 cm) Framed: 17 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches (44.5 x 36.8 x 5.4 cm)Copyright:
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkCuratorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
1952-61-99Credit Line:
A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1928Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (24.1 x 16.2 cm) Framed: 17 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches (44.5 x 36.8 x 5.4 cm)Copyright:
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkCuratorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1952-61-99Credit Line:
A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952
Label:
In August 1928, Picasso and his family vacationed at Dinard, a popular resort town on the northwestern coast of France. During this vacation, the artist completed a series of paintings of naked female bathers playing with beach balls as studies for a never-realized monument. Although his wife, Olga, accompanied Picasso on this trip, the grotesque female figures that appear in these works are thought to represent his teenage mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who secretly lodged nearby. Walter's body has been transformed in this painting into a strange anthropomorphic structure, with a button head, boomerang-shaped torso, conelike breasts, and tubular sticks for limbs.
In August 1928, Picasso and his family vacationed at Dinard, a popular resort town on the northwestern coast of France. During this vacation, the artist completed a series of paintings of naked female bathers playing with beach balls as studies for a never-realized monument. Although his wife, Olga, accompanied Picasso on this trip, the grotesque female figures that appear in these works are thought to represent his teenage mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who secretly lodged nearby. Walter's body has been transformed in this painting into a strange anthropomorphic structure, with a button head, boomerang-shaped torso, conelike breasts, and tubular sticks for limbs.
