Les Dejeuners, Etudes VII (d’apres Manet)
Pablo Picasso
Les Dejeuners, Etudes VII (d’apres Manet)
pencil on paper
1961
A hand-signed, original Pablo Picasso drawing. Pencil on paper.
1961
Pencil drawing on wove paper bearing the “les Annonay” watermark.
Hand-signed, dated and annotated in pencil upper left 23.6.61/VII/Picasso.
Catalog: Zervos XX.50; Picasso Project 61-114.
10 5/8 x 16 ½ inches
The book “Les Dejeuners de Picasso” by Douglas Cooper – the renowned art critic – describes the illustrious series of drawings and paintings made by Picasso as an homage to Edouard Manet and his famous painting “Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe”. This work, now in the Louvre, showed a naked woman having a picnic with men on the grass. Picasso was fascinated by this subject and made a whole series of paintings, prints and drawings relating to it. In more recent times there was a major exhibition on the subject at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the exhibition at the National Gallery “Picasso challenging the past” dealt at great length with the subject also. In his art Picasso never depicts the precise scene; rather he makes a series of dramatic transformations of the work which Cooper divides into four phases.
