Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

The present drawing is a study for the painting of the same name in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (fig. 1), likely influenced by Rubens' celebrated mythological work, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (fig. 2).


(fig. 1) Pablo Picasso, Le Rapt, 1920. The Musuem of Modern Art, The Philip L. Goodwin Collection, New York. 29668373_FIG

(fig. 2) Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, 1618. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.