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Pablo Picasso
Centaur1955

On view:
BCAM 3rd Floor, Modern Art
Painted wood sculpture of a centaur-like figure in two parts, assembled from flat black panels decorated with white painted line drawings, standing on tripod legs

Pablo Picasso, Centaur, 1955 (alternate view), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Gloria and David L. Wolper, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Pablo Picasso
Spain, 1881-1973, active France
Title
Centaur
Place Made
Spain
Date Made
1955
Medium
Painted wood
Dimensions
90 × 79 × 29 in. (228.6 × 200.66 × 73.66 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Gloria and David L. Wolper
Accession Number
M.85.318
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Spies, Werner. Picasso: the Sculptures. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2000.
  • Edgerton, Anne Carnegie; Maurice Tuchman. The Wolper Picassos. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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