Danae Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, active France, 1881–1973)

1962

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Picasso’s deformation of the nude in his illustrations for Ovid’s tales in Les metamorphoses continued to inform his work, as in this later depiction of Danaë. In Greek mythology, Danaë was the daughter of a king who, having been told by an oracle that his daughter’s son would kill him, imprisoned the then-childless Danaë in a bronze tower. Zeus came to the captive Danaë and impregnated her in the form of a golden rain.

Medium

Color linoleum cut

Dimensions

sheet: 10 5/8 × 13 3/4 in. (26.99 × 34.93 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S

Accession Number

1969.60.14

Geography

Made in France

Culture

Spanish

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Object copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
In Copyright
Additional information

Marks

watermark: ARCHES [cut off]

Inscriptions

in plate upper left, reversed: 25. / 2. / 62. \r\nin plate lower left, reversed: 22. / 1. / 62\r\nin graphite lower left, off plate: 10/50 \r\n

Signed

in graphite, lower right: Picasso

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