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Pablo Picasso — Retour aux sources: Picasso touriste à la Fuente de Canaletas (Back to the source: Picasso as a tourist at the Fuente de Canaletas), plate 81 from Série 347 (Bl. 1561, Ba. 1577)
Pablo Picasso

Retour aux sources: Picasso touriste à la Fuente de Canaletas (Back to the source: Picasso as a tourist at the Fuente de Canaletas), plate 81 from Série 347 (Bl. 1561, Ba. 1577)

An etching by Picasso from his renowned Série 347, depicting the artist as a tourist at Barcelona's Fuente de Canaletas fountain. The work combines humor and autobiography within Picasso's prolific late-period exploration of artistic identity.

Medium
Etching, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins.

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September 19, 2024

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Pablo Picasso, Retour aux sources: Picasso touriste à la Fuente de Canaletas (Back to the source: Picasso as a tourist at the Fuente de Canaletas), plate 81 from Série 347 (Bl. 1561, Ba. 1577)

An etching by Picasso from his renowned Série 347, depicting the artist as a tourist at Barcelona's Fuente de Canaletas fountain. The work combines humor and autobiography within Picasso's prolific late-period exploration of artistic identity.

Medium
Etching, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Intaglio, Late Period, Autobiography, Self-reference, Etching, Pablo Picasso, Série 347, Spanish Master

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Collected by

Sebastián In Situ, Richard Caswell, Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Sebastián Naranjo, Alex Capecelatro, Saul Beceiro Novo