after Pablo Picasso - Sculpture, La Chèvre - 32 cm - Patinated bronze

(1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins) after "La Chèvre" (The Goat). Original title: Bronze, brown patinated. Posthumous, contemporary cast from the goat sculpture created by Picasso in 1950 (now in the Musée Picasso in Paris). Picasso's studio in the pottery town of Vallauris, where he worked from 1948, was located next to a courtyard where potters threw away their waste—metal pieces and ceramic shards. Picasso—who had a fondness for goats—decided to create a goat in a characteristic, experimental manner, searching the courtyard for discarded materials that could suggest parts of the animal's body. He assembled a skeleton from these and filled the sculpture with plaster; a wicker basket forms the chest cavity; two ceramic jugs were modified to serve as udders; palm fronds shape the inclination of the goat's spine and the length of its snout; metal scraps are consistently used as structural elements. The first bronze casts of the goat were made in the early 1950s (including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, cast in 1952). Height 88.5 cm; length approximately 100 cm. After Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973). Light green patinated bronze. Posthumous, contemporary cast from the late 20th/early 21st century.