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The 1934 Drawing and its Correspondences in Picasso's Oeuvre
The Embrace, 1901
Picasso made many studies and paintings on the theme of the lovers'
embrace, this later developed into the more meaningful composition, "La
Vie".
The embrace is in part a pregnancy motif and it reappears in a
complex and astonishing way in the 1934 drawing.
Around the sketchily
rendered embracing figures in the drawing are an array of hidden features
which include, a snarling mouth, a flame, an open vulva and a laterally
inscribed number "13", the number of the "Death" card in the Tarot whose
presence indicates the death of the lovers' relationship and possibly, the
death of their unborn child.
© Mark Harris 1996, 1997
- The Burial of Casagemas (Evocation), 1901
- The Embrace, 1901
- La Vie, 1903
- Phallus and Nude, 1903
- The Mackerel, 1903
- Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
- Curtain Design for Parade, 1917
- Pantomime Horse Studies for Parade, 1917 - Related Puppetry Imagery
- Costume Studies for Pulchinella, 1920
- The Three Dancers, 1925
- La Statuaire, 1925
- The Studio, 1925
- Crucifixion, 1930
- Crucifixion Studies of the 1930's
- The Vollard Suite
- Classical Prints of the 1920's and 1930's
- The Dream, 1932
- Le Meurtre, 1934 and The Death of Marat, 1934
- Minotaur with Javelin, 1934
- Minotauromachy, 1936
- Picasso's illustrations of Paul Eluard's poem, "La Barre d'Appui", 1936
- Guernica, 1937
- Guernica in depth
- Picasso's Secret Guernica
- Night Fishing in Antibes, 1939
- Curtain Design for Romain Rolland's Play,"Le 14 Juillet", 1936
- Grand air, Les yeux fertiles, 1936
- Erotic Compositions of the 1950's and 1960's
- Peace, 1952
- Picasso's Bestiary
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