Pablo PicassoEgidio Costantini

Pablo Picasso: Spanish, 1881-1973

Egidio Costantini: Italian, 1912-2007

Centaur from the series Nymphs and Satyrs

© Succession Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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© Succession Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Succession Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Succession Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Succession Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Succession Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Centaur from the series Nymphs and Satyrs, 1964

Artwork Details

Materials

glass

Measurements

overall: 8 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (21.59 x 12.07 x 17.14 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Nell E. Wendler and James S. Ely, Jr. in memory of Mrs. Nell Schoellkopf Ely Miller, 1972

Accession ID

1972:10.1

Mythological creatures appear throughout Pablo Picasso’s body of work, and in the mid-1940s he created a series of fourteen small clay sculptures depicting nymphs and satyrs sitting, standing, and playing instruments. The works were then cast in bronze and, later, made in ceramic. In the mid-1960s, he revisited the motif and transposed the playful figures into cast blue glass in collaboration with master glassmaker Egidio Costantini (Italian, 1912–2007). Picasso was attracted to these characters’ playfulness, and they served as poignant symbols within his personal iconography. One of the satyr figures here is said to be a self-portrait of the artist.

Label from Picasso: The Artist and His Models, November 5, 2016–February 19, 2017

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