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Monday
Jun132016

Picasso’s She-Goat

DateMonday, June 13, 2016 at 8:09AM

Pablo Picasso - She-Goat - Vallauris - 1950 (cast 1952). Bronze, 46 3/8 x 56 3/8 x 28 1/8" (117.7 x 143.1 x 71.4 cm). Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (click photo for larger image)Pablo Picasso's studio in the town of Vallauris (in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France) where he worked beginning in 1948, was next to a yard into which potters threw debris—pieces of metal and shards of ceramics. After deciding to sculpt a goat, Picasso (1881-1973) searched the yard for discarded materials that could suggest parts of the animal's body. He crafted a skeleton with these objects, and filled out the sculpture with plaster. A wicker basket forms the goat's rib cage; two ceramic jugs were modified to serve as its udders. Flat palm fronds shape the slope of the goat's spine and the length of its snout, and metal scraps are used as structural units throughout.

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