Page 25 - Studio International - July/August 1967

Picasso: sculpture and constructions

In his little-known constructions of 1912-24 (of which five examples are illustrated overleaf ),
Picasso's gift for magical improvization was controlled by the visual disciplines of cubism.
Guitars or table-top groups are fragmented and re-assembled, tranformed, from other materials.
Forms, spaces and colours involve the spectator in the discourse between intense vision and inspired
invention.

Goat 1950
Bronze
47⅝ x 28¾ x 55 in.

The works illustrated are
from the exhibition of
Picasso sculpture at the
Tate Gallery (9 June-13
August) and this autumn at
the Museum of Modern Art,
New York