“Présence” (chapter title, page 13) from Corps perdu

Pablo Picasso, 1949, published 1950

Technical Details

About This Work

This aquatint is one of Picasso's illustrations for Aimé Césaire's Corps perdu, where graphic forms become part of a collaboration between poetry and image. Picasso's choice of aquatint from an illustrated book shapes how the subject is encountered: the material, scale, and method are not incidental but part of the artwork's visual argument. The record is held by Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, whose direct object page verifies the canonical title, date, medium, dimensions, and collection attribution. This catalog entry therefore distinguishes documented facts from interpretive reading and directs visitors to the institutional record for further research.

MoMA places the illustrated book within Picasso's engagement with Césaire and the Présence Africaine circle, an important context for its cultural and political resonance. The work belongs in a broader account of Picasso's sustained shifts among drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture rather than in a simplified single-style narrative. Its museum object number and rights statement allow the gallery to provide reliable scholarship without presenting an unlicensed reproduction as if it were freely reusable. The site will retain the official collection link as the authoritative factual reference and use a rights-aware fallback for the image display.

Current Location

Valuation & Provenance

Keywords