drew
the upper right panel from (111A). The horse is reversed because the
printing process for for etching reverses the image in printing if
this is not taken into account in the creation of the plate. Other
reversals indicate that for some of these panels Picasso was working
directly on the plate from the other artists' work. Look at the upper
central panel of (111A) and also (111B). A study of (111A) suggests
that the spilling intestines in (111) were patterned after the clouds
in front of the chariot wheels.
The
upper left panel of (112) contains a reversal of the forms in (111A)
in order to shape the horse. The horizontal clouds over the fallen
man's head became the horse's head. The curved clothing in the right
of (111A), when reversed, form the hind end of the horse in (112).
The center panel of (112) uses (111B) in its proper orientation to
design the bull and the horse.
“Guernica”
composition study May 9, 1937 (113)
This
study (113) was created from the left arm of the father in
Rembrandt's "The Return of the Prodigal Son" (103B). This
source also explains some of the twisted anatomy at the base of
(113). Vertical architectural shapes were reconstructed from the
background of the Rembrandt. However, the primary source for (113)
remains Ingres's "Venus Wounded by Diomedes" (111A).
The
light which Picasso placed top center may have first illuminated
Bassano's "Samson Slaying the Philistines" (113D).
The
woman in Rembrandt's “Blinding of Samson” (113B) with her arm
extended is another example of a figure in the same gesture as
Picasso's woman with the lamp.
A
central figure in dark clothing from Rembrandt's "Judas
Repentant" (113C) provided Picasso with a model for the pose and
the expression of the bull in this study.
"Leg
and Head of a Horse" May 10, 1937 (114)
Two
horses' heads from Rubens' "Quos Ego Modello" (114A) were
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