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PICASSO PABLO PICASSO Hand Signed Etching 1968 Series 347

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PICASSO PABLO PICASSO Hand Signed Etching 1968 Series 347
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PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish)

Title : Nude Viewing Man Writing and Character Studies (from the Series 347), 1968

Technique : Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching on Rives paper

Paper size: 21 x 27 cm / 8.2 x 10.6 in

Image size: 14.6 x 20.3 cm / 5.7 x 8.2 in

Additional Information : This etching is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Picasso" at the lower right margin, as well as hand numbered in pencil "47/50" at the lower left margin.
It was printed in 1968 by the Crommelynck brothers in France and published by Gallerie Louise Leiris, Paris in an edition of 50 signed and numbered impressions.
The paper bears the "Rives" watermark on the the lower right part.

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.
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.

The full title of this work is 'Écrivain avec son égérie, travaillant à un conte du genre mille et une nuits où il est question d'un cabaliste au hibou, d'un jeune homme et d'une hétaire'(Writer with his Muse Composing a Tale Similar to the Thousand and One Nights, Relating to a Cabalist and his Owl, a Young Man and a Courtesan).

Literature: Bloch, Georges, 1968, Pablo Picasso: Tome II, Catalogue of the printed graphic work 1966-69, Berne Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein.
Reference: Bloch 1801.

Condition: Very good condition.