Picasso and the Minotaur

Published on 14 January 2020, by Agathe Albi-Gervy

Auction on 23 January 2020 - 13:00 (CET) - 30, Berkeley Square - W1J6EX Londres

Through a complex iconography, Pablo Picasso exorcises his angst as an unfaithful husband. This engraving, passed down by his granddaughter Marina, is the seventh and last state.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), La Minotauromachie, 1935, engraving on paper, with margins:... Picasso and the Minotaur

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), La Minotauromachie, 1935, engraving on paper, with margins: 57.3 x 77.4 cm.
Estimate: £800,000/1.2 M
© Succession Picasso 2020

On March 23, 1935, when Pablo Picasso began to trace this composition directly onto the plate, he was in a state of considerable anxiety, because his wife Olga Khokhlova was about to leave him after discovering that his young mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, was pregnant. In this Minotauromachie…

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