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P.PICASSO H. Sig Etching Spanish 1968

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P.PICASSO H. Sig Etching Spanish 1968
PABLO PICASSO <BR>Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish) <BR><BR>Cloak and Sword: Pursuit I - 1968 <BR><BR>Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching <BR><BR>Title : Cloak and Sword: Pursuit I<BR><BR>Technique : Original Aquatint on BFK Vellum paper. <BR><BR>Plate size: 16,3 X 20,3 cm / 6.4 x 8 inch. <BR><BR>Additional Information : This Original Aquatint is Hand Signed in pencil by the artist "Picasso" at the lower right margin.<BR>The work is also Numbered in pencil "22/50" at the lower left margin, <BR>as well as Dated "15.5.68." in the plate in the upper left hand corner. <BR>The work was printed in a limited edition of only 50 impressions in 1968. <BR>The work was published by Gallerie Louise Leiris, Paris in 1969 and printed by the Crommelynck brothers in France.<BR>This Aquatint is plate 88 of series 347.<BR><BR>The “347 Series” was, in printmaking, the undertaking which defined late Picasso. This prodigious outpouring of work, dating from March 16th–October 5th, 1968, deals with all of his old themes and fantasies, adding an obsession newly central in the late 60s, the artist as voyeur. It is in this role, rather than that of a protagonist, that the artist figures in these fantastic narrations.<BR>In order to be able to work with full freedom and concentration, Picasso had his printers, the brothers Crommelynck, bring the etching plates and hand press to his farmhouse near Cannes.<BR><BR>Literature: Pablo Picasso: Tome II, Catalogue of the printed graphic work 1966-1969 by Georges Bloch, <BR>edition Kornfeld et Klipstein, Berne 1971.<BR>Reference: Bloch 1568. <BR><BR><BR>Condition : Excellent Condition. Unexamined out of the frame.