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Richard Hamilton — Picasso's Meninas from Hommage à Picasso
Richard Hamilton

Picasso's Meninas from Hommage à Picasso

A masterful exercise in layered artistic dialogue, this etching and aquatint brings together Hamilton's sharp conceptual sensibility with Picasso's own reimagining of Velázquez's iconic Las Meninas. Hamilton employs the intricate tonal possibilities of aquatint alongside the precise linear qualities of drypoint and roulette to reconstruct Picasso's fragmented, Cubist-inflected figures within the grand compositional framework of the original masterwork. The result is a richly textured homage upon a homage, printed on luxurious Rives paper with full margins, celebrating the enduring chain of influence that connects generations of artistic vision.

Medium
Etching and aquatint with roulette and drypoint, on Rives paper, with full margins,

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December 12, 2013

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Richard Hamilton, Picasso's Meninas from Hommage à Picasso

A masterful exercise in layered artistic dialogue, this etching and aquatint brings together Hamilton's sharp conceptual sensibility with Picasso's own reimagining of Velázquez's iconic Las Meninas. Hamilton employs the intricate tonal possibilities of aquatint alongside the precise linear qualities of drypoint and roulette to reconstruct Picasso's fragmented, Cubist-inflected figures within the grand compositional framework of the original masterwork. The result is a richly textured homage upon a homage, printed on luxurious Rives paper with full margins, celebrating the enduring chain of influence that connects generations of artistic vision.

Medium
Etching and aquatint with roulette and drypoint, on Rives paper, with full margins,
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th Century, Male Artist, Established Master, Homage And Appropriation, Intellectual And Cerebral, British Artist, Printmaking, Pop Art, Etching and Aquatint, Monochromatic, Figurative

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