{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"37163"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Acquired through the generosity of the Museum Advisory Council, in honor of Frank Robinson"},"labelText":{"label":"More Information","value":"Picasso\u2019s graphic work spanned more than seventy years and resulted in more than one thousand prints executed in every technique. Here he uses aquatint as a painterly medium to describe the room lit with a shaft of sunlight. The satyr unveils the sleeping woman reverentially. He is shown as a voyeur or witness in this evocative scene that references Rembrandt\u2019s famous etching Jupiter and Antiope made nearly three centuries earlier. This is the last print in the famous Vollard Suite, a series of one hundred prints commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, Picasso\u2019s first dealer. Made over a period of seven years, the suite of prints reflects Picasso\u2019s relationship with his muse and mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, the anxiety of war, and the fast-changing political situation in Europe. (\u201cHighlights from the Collection: 45 Years at the Johnson,\" curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 27\u2013July 22, 2018)"},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2001.001"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Bloch 230, second state of two; Baer 609, six state of six d, from edition of 250 on Montval paper printed by Lacouriere, before the cancellatioon of the plate. signed in pencil lower right_______In 1927, the seventeen-year-old Marie-Thérèse Walter literally walked into Picasso\u2019s life. He saw her emerge from a metro and approached her, promising that they would do great things together. Though Picasso was married to the former Diaghelev dancer Olga Kokhlova, Marie-Thérèse quickly became the inspiration for his art and remained his muse for nearly fifteen years. Between 1930 and 1937, Picasso did a series of one hundred etchings commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, a publisher and art dealer. Vollard, who had cast Picasso\u2019s Tête de Fernande edition in bronze in 1909, had been a vigorous supporter of the artist and his work since he gave him his first exhibition in 1901, when Picasso was just twenty. It was a relationship that proved fruitful to both parties and the Vollard Suite was to be the culmination of their collaborations.The suite consists of five images of \u201cThe Battle of Love,\u201d forty-six of \u201cThe Sculptor\u2019s Studio,\u201d four referring to Rembrandt, fifteen of \u201cThe Minotaur\u201d and \u201cThe Blind Minotaur,\u201d three portraits of Vollard, and twenty-seven separate sheets showing a neoclassical influence. The figure of the satyr\u2014who gently reaches out his hand to lift the veil from the sleeping figure\u2014is, of course, the artist himself. The recumbent girl is Marie-Thérèse, though by this time Picasso had already begun his overlapping affair with the surrealist photographer Dora Maar. In the entirety of Picasso\u2019s oeuvre, this ranks as one of his most tender portrayals of an intimate moment between artist and mistress. In 1939 Vollard died in a car accident and the Vollard Suite plates were bought by the printer Georges Petit. The intervening war years effectively put the project on hold and it wasn\u2019t until 1950 that the first prints became available. By then, Picasso was making lithographs of his new love, Françoise Gilot. \u2014NG"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Etching and lift-ground aquatint"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":"2001.001_z0012e_021"},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Faune Dévoilant une Femme (Satyr and Sleeping Woman)"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Prints"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker / Culture","value":"Pablo Picasso"},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/91260/full"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1936"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"181063"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Plate: 12 3/8 × 16 1/4 inches (31.4 × 41.3 cm);Frame: 12 1/2 × 16 7/16 inches (31.8 × 41.8 cm)"}}]}