Faune dévoilant une Femme

Pablo Picasso

1936

Original aquatint with sugar and varnish on Montval laid paper, fiiligrané

31,6 x 41,7 cm

Signed by the artist in pencil lower right

Catalog raisonné: Bloch 230; Baer 609: Faune unveiling a sleeping woman (Jupiter and Antiope, after Rembrandt)

©Succession Picasso 2025

The faun, like the minotaur, is a mythological character of whom Picasso gave numerous representations. A slob-man often associated with Bacchic feasts, he is a figure linked to pleasures. Here, Picasso excels in the art of contrasts between whites and blacks, using subtle grays to convey light.