©Pablo Picasso - Portrait of a Young Girl, after Cranach the Younger, II 1958
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Portrait of a Young Girl, after Cranach the Younger, II 1958
65x54cm linoleum cut
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Museum of Modern Art, New York:
Like many artists, Picasso looked to the history of art for inspiration. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s he focused with particular intensity on individual works by past masters, making variations in painting, drawing, sculpture, and prints. The work of these historic figures had a catalytic impact on Picasso at a time when contemporary art—the various forms of Abstract Expressionism, for example—was going in directions counter to his own aesthetic concerns. Picasso tacked a reproduction of a painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger to his studio wall and it became the basis for this linoleum cut.