Printer: Draeger (1 of 1,250 Editions)

Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm

Condition: Very good

Available: In a charcoal frame

Description: Picasso, aged 87, worked tirelessly on a massive series of 347 etchings which he completed in just 204 days between March and October 1968. The series was produced by master engravers Piero and Aldo Crommelynck who moved from Paris to Mougins, where Picasso was living, and established a workshop in a nearby bakery. 

Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, his extraordinary artistic genius made him the ‘rock star’ of the Modern Art world pioneering cubism, surrealism, expressionism and collage. Throughout his long career, he produced more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theatre sets, and costumes. From the mid-1940s, he also worked with the Mourlot studios in Paris and created over 400 lithographs and exhibition posters. As well as Fernand Mourlot, Henri Deschamps was Picasso's favourite and most trusted master printer at the studio and they collaborated together from 1945 right up until Picasso’s death in 1973.