PABLO RUIZ PICASSO (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973).
"Bacchanale", ca. 1959.
Color etching and aquatint on BFK Rives paper, copy 15/300.
Signed and justified by hand.
Published by Crommenlynck of Paris.
A note on the back specifies the use of 15 colors including 5 different whites.
Measurements:46.4 x 55.9 cm (print); 53 x 76 cm (paper); 89.5 x 97.5 cm (frame).
The bacchanals were a theme very cultivated by Picasso, from his interest in classical mythology, through which he filtered his most intimate vision of life, desire and melancholy.
Creator of Cubism together with Braque, Picasso was a turning point in the history of art. He began his studies in 1895, at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, and only two years later he had his first individual exhibition, at the café "Els Quatre Gats". After several short stays in Paris, Picasso settled definitively in the French capital in 1904. The definitive international recognition will come in 1939, as a result of the retrospective that the MOMA in New York dedicates to him. During the following decades, anthological exhibitions will be dedicated to him all over the world, in Rome, Milan, Paris, Cologne and New York, among many other cities. He is represented in the most important museums around the world, such as the Metropolitan, the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in London or the Reina Sofia in Madrid.