Bather by the Sea

1939

Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973

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Bather by the Sea is readily identified as Dora Maar by the shoulder-length dark hair, long face, bright eyes and full red lips. In 1936, the poet Paul Eluard introduced Picasso to Maar, a painter and photographer who was a member of the Surrealist circle of writers and artists in Paris. For the next ten years, she was Picasso's principle muse.

Title Bather by the Sea

Artwork Date 1939

Artist Pablo Picasso

Life Dates 1881-1973

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Spanish

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Medium Gouache on laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 25 1/4 × 18 1/4 inches (64.1 × 46.4 cm) Framed: 39 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (100.3 × 82.6 × 4.4 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.339

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Signed Signed and dated, in black ink, upper right (at two separate times?): 20. 7. 39 | Picasso

Provenance

the artist, Pablo Picasso;
purchased by (Galerie Pierre, Paris, France);
1947, sold by (Theodore Schempp and Co., New York, New York, USA);
1947-1970, purchased by Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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