Le Rapt

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Le Rapt
pencil on joined paper
8 7/8 x 10 1/8 in. (22.5 x 25.7 cm.) (irregular)
drawn in 1920

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Marina Picasso (by descent from the above).
Jan Krugier, acquired from the above.

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1951, vol. 4, no. 108 (illustrated, pl. 35).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: Neoclassicism I, 1920-1921, San Francisco, 1995, p. 125, no. 20-403 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co. in collaboration with Galerie Jan Krugier, The Primacy of Design: Major Drawings in Black and Colored Media from the Marina Picasso Collection, October-December 1983, p. 72, no. 33 (illustrated, p. 73; dated 1919).
Paris, Galeries nationales du Jeu de Paume; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso: Érotique, February 2001-January 2002, p. 208, no. 76 (illustrated in color; titled The Ravishment).

Lot Essay

The present drawing is a study for the painting of the same name in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (fig. 1), likely influenced by Rubens' celebrated mythological work, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (fig. 2).

(fig. 1) Pablo Picasso, Le Rapt, 1920. The Musuem of Modern Art, The Philip L. Goodwin Collection, New York. 29668373_FIG

(fig. 2) Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, 1618. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

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