1933

Model with Surrealist Sculpture

Spanish, 1881 - 1973

In this celebrated print, a beautiful young girl resembling the artist's lover Marie-Thérèse Walter contemplates a strange assemblage, in which male and female body parts are merged with fragments of furniture and other bric-a-brac to create a Surrealist-inspired sculpture. The deliberate juxtaposition of this fantastic composite image, simultaneously comic and frighteningly grotesque, with the timeless beauty of the curious young nymph illustrates the two worlds to which Picasso's art owed allegiance at this time: the harmony and order of classical mythology and the Surrealist world of dreams and the imagination.