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Fine art etching famous drypoint artwork titled Le Bain (The Bath), executed by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in 1905.
Artwork Details
• Series: This print is a key piece from his highly celebrated La Suite des Saltimbanques (The Saltimbanque Suite)*, which chronicles the lives of traveling acrobats and performers during Picasso's Rose Period.
• Medium: It is a drypoint print created on copper plate and typically pulled on fine Van Gelder wove paper.
• Composition: The intimate scene captures a private family moment offstage. It depicts a standing male acrobat wearing a jester-like cap alongside a kneeling woman bathing a child in a shallow tub. A performance drum sits in the foreground.
• Signature: In the top right corner of the plate, it features Picasso's incised plate signature and date reading Picasso 1905.
• Publication: While created in 1905, most impressions available today were printed later in 1913 by Louis Fort and published in an edition of 250 by the legendary art dealer Ambroise Vollard in Paris.
Impressions of this masterpiece are held in prestigious museum collections worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. |
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