PABLO PICASSO'S ETCHING, 347 SERIES

Title: "Circo y Enano"
Style: Modern (ca. 1880-1945)
Medium: Prints, Etching / Engraving
Year: 1968
Print/Casting Year: 1968
Size: height - 10.96"; width - 14.67"; depth - 0 mm

Description:
They are the "artists" of the Circus, one of them riding horses, led by the dwarf, while Picasso (right) observes the scene (from 347 series).
Medium: Etching on Rives paper
Size: height - 10.96"; width - 14.67"; depth - 0 mm
Dated 22 April 1968 (top left), signed lower left
Condition is excellent, Etching is not framed

About Picasso's 347 Series
In his ninth decade, Picasso created the remarkable group of etchings known as the 347 series in less than 7 months, from March 16th to October 5th, 1968. He collaborated with the master printers Piero and Aldo Crommelynck in his private studio near Cannes.

While combining different cultures, icons, and periods in this series, Picasso was able to create a unifying theme throughout: that of the narrator and observer rather than participant. The works are a panorama of compelling imagery including circus figures, musketeers, caballeros, musicians, and painters with their models, many charged with an erotic tone. Picasso's command of the challenging techniques of etching, engraving, dry-point and aquatint are revealed forcefully in the 347 works, along with the highly personal and facile drawing ability he possessed in his late years.