The Dance

Pablo Picasso|Ambroise Vollard|Louis Fort

1905, printed 1913 · Drypoint · Drawings and Prints

Picasso made two prints of Salomé's infamous dance, this humorous caricature and another, more sober work that includes a detail of the head of John the Baptist. This amusing drypoint relates to a drawing of the same year, which Picasso inscribed to his patron Leo Stein.

Artist

Pablo Picasso|Ambroise Vollard|Louis Fort

Date

1905, printed 1913

Medium

Drypoint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Helen Frankenthaler, 1973