Friday, August 14, 2015

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"Buste de Femme d'Apres Cranach" (132) is a color linoleum print which Picasso cut while looking at a postcard reproduction of Cranach's "Portrait of a Lady" (132A).

EXAMPLE FROM 1961

"Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe," 1961 (133)

Picasso's "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe," (133) claims Manet as its source (28C); however, Louis LeNain's "Peasant Family" (133B) contains the contours of Picasso's composition.

EXAMPLE FROM 1962

"Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe after Manet" 1962 (134)

Furthermore, he combined the subject of (28C) with LeNain's "Peasants at " (134).

Picasso had done a series of paintings after Manet's "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" (28C) as Penrose reported “Picasso had once more taken a painting he admired and used it as the starting point of successive variations. This time he had picked the "Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" of Manet, a subject which could easily have taken place in the sunlight and shade of the water meadows of Vauvenarques. The composition of this landscape with figures had already been borrowed by Manet from Giorgione's painting in the Louvre, "LaFete Champetre." But as usual the scene became increasingly transformed by Picasso's imagination, and except for the dominant greens, the allusions to the original painting gave way to playful inventions. Manet's characters lived a new life improvised for them by Picasso” (Penrose 387).

"Family Portrait," a litho crayon drawing 1962 (135)

"Family Portrait," a print 1962 (136)


At this time Picasso must have seem "Dr. Baines and Family" (135A), a photograph by D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson, because the persons in the

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