Jeune sculpteur finissant un plâtre, 1933 (published 1939)

  • Roger Lacourière, French, 1892-1966
  • Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881-1973
  • Ambroise Vollard, French, 1867-1939

Etching in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 10 1/2 × 7 9/16 inches (26.7 × 19.2 cm) Sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 7/16 inches (44.8 × 34.1 cm)

Gift of the George R. Francoeur Trust

2019.291

Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: picasso [underlined]

Watermark in lower margin center: Picasso [underlined] Watermark in lower margin right: [woman in half circle - Galatea]

Inscribed in plate in reverse, top right corner: P A [illegible] XXXIII - Inscribed on verso, in graphite, top right corner: 650 | "Suite Vollard"

February 13, 1980 (Sotheby's Park Bernet, New York, New York, USA), purchased by George R. Francoeur (1934-2019) (Bloomfield Township, Michigan, USA)

George R. Francoeur Trust

2020-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Pablo Picasso, Jeune sculpteur finissant un plâtre, 1933 (published 1939), etching in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the George R. Francoeur Trust, 2019.291.