Color lithograph, heavyweight lithographic paper; 38 x 48 cm clear passe-partout, 49 x 59 cm framed passe-partout.
Signed on the plate under the composition p. d. "Picasso" and hand-numbered in pencil "19/200"; l.d.; on the back, color facsimile of Picasso's drawing of the so-called "head" with signature and information about the certified publisher - "Copyright Foundation Pablo Picasso" / amount of edition (200 pieces) / each piece numbered. Original certificate
Bull-headed, round-eyed, steaming with wild sexual intensity - and that's just the Artist.
Throughout his life, Pablo Picasso felt a strong affinity with the mythical Minotaur and drew this creature again and again. "If you marked on a map all the routes I walked and connected them with a line," he once said, "they would probably take the shape of the Minotaur." The Minotaur in Picasso's work is a symbol of unbridled sexuality. Many of his works show the Minotaur in situations full of erotic tension, which may reflect the artist's personal life and his complicated relationships with women. The Minotaur is the alter ego of Pablo Picasso.
Picasso, known for his many love affairs, created works characterized by great freedom and expression, and thematically oscillate around his favorite motifs: woman, sexuality, eroticism....
Completed in 1936, it also includes an unmistakable portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso's lover, who had just given birth to a daughter, Maya. His marriage to Olga was crumbling, but his new love, Dora Maar, to whom the willowy horse in the painting probably refers, is already emerging.
Picasso's stunning color work depicting an animal impaled on a broken sword went up for sale at Sotheby's. It was one of his most valuable works, inherited by his granddaughter, Marina. It had never before been seen in the UK and first came on the market in 2014. The painting was the highlight of an auction of works from the collection of John Kruger, the art dealer who died in 2008 .
