Au Cirque: Acrobates, Girafe, Nageuses..., from Series 347 (B. 1504; Ba. 1520)

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Pablo Picasso
Au Cirque: Acrobates, Girafe, Nageuses..., from Series 347 (B. 1504; Ba. 1520)
etching, 1968, on BFK Rives, signed in pencil, numbered 22/50 (there were also seventeen artist's proofs), published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1969, with full margins, some pale mount-staining, otherwise generally in very good condition
P. 313 x 416mm., S. 455 x 565mm.

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The circus was one of Picasso's first subjects in printmaking. The Saltimbanque series of 1904-5 depicted the strolling acrobats and players who for centuries had drifted around Paris and the French countryside. Here, many years later, the circus is resurrected as a metaphor for life.

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