Sheep Skull with Grapes
Pablo Picasso Spanish
Not on view
Upon the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, Picasso left Paris and decamped to Royan. He stayed in that small town on France's southern Atlantic coast for an entire year with his new lover, Dora Maar, as well as Marie-Thérèse Walter and their daughter, Maya. Uncertain of the outcome of the war and uncomfortable in unfamiliar surroundings, he filled eight sketchbooks with drawings that reflect his anxiety, among them innumerable studies of sheep's skulls and jawbones. This watercolor is based on a drawing in his first Royan sketchbook.
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