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PICASSO PABLO PICASSO Stamped Signed Etching 1971

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PICASSO PABLO PICASSO Stamped Signed Etching 1971
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PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins (Spanish)

Title: Women Playing Music and Dancing from Series 156, 1971

Technique: Original Stamp Signed and Numbered Aquatint on BFK Rives paper

Paper Size: TBC when unframed

Image size: 49 x 36.4 cm / 19.2 x 14.3 in

Additional information: This original etching is signed with the artist's stamp at the lower right margin. It is numbered in pencil "12/50" at the lower left margin. It is also dated in the plate "5.5.71" at the upper left corner of the image.
The work was printed by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris in a limited edition of only 50 impressions that were all stamped signed and hand numbered. There were also 15 artist and printer proofs.
It was published by Galerie Louis Leiris, Paris.
The works Picasso created in 1970-1972 pays once more homage to the female sex, but with some unexpected accents. It is a tender and voluptuous homage in which a touch of irony mingled with respect and mischievousness is present.
These are the master's last works - series 156.

Litrature: Bloch, Georges. 2004. Pablo Picasso: Catalogue of the Printed Work 1970-1972. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts.
Reference: Bloch 1974

Condition: Very Good Condition. Not examined outside the frame.