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(in B. 1604)...the house is very precisely delineated in the sense that it is clearly not just any old house but a specific building in the artist's memory. Perhaps there had been such a luxurious brothel which played a role in Picasso's adolescence in Barcelona..three personages are lost in dreamy memories before this central scene...a young man, handsome and crowned with a wreath of leaves like a Greek god, a painter dressed in 17th century Spanish costume, and a old man lying on his stomach like a baby, bald, plump and somewhat grotesque. May we recongnise in these three figures three images of the artist? (Picasso the Printmaker, Graphics from the Marina Picasso Colection, Brigitte Baer, Dallas Museum of Art, 1983, p. 175)

Pablo Picasso

Vieil Homme songeant, from Séries 347 (B. 1604; Ba. 1619 Bb1)

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Pablo Picasso
Vieil Homme songeant, from Séries 347 (B. 1604; Ba. 1619 Bb1)
aquatint, 1968, on wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered 32/50 (there were also 17 artist's proofs), published by Galerie L. Leiris, Paris, 1969, with wide margins, a deckle edge below, in very good condition
P. 492 x 335 mm., S. 656 x 462 mm.

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