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Richard Hamilton — Picasso's meninas: three impressions
Richard Hamilton

Picasso's meninas: three impressions

Richard Hamilton's *Picasso's Meninas: Three Impressions* pays homage to Picasso's celebrated series of reinterpretations of Velázquez's iconic masterpiece, filtering the work through multiple layers of artistic reinvention. Executed in etching with roulette, aquatint, drypoint, and burnishing on Rives BFK paper, Hamilton employs a rich variety of intaglio techniques to explore texture, tone, and line with remarkable complexity. The suite of three prints reflects Hamilton's enduring fascination with the interplay between high art and reproduction, interrogating how meaning shifts across successive acts of translation and interpretation.

Medium
Three etchings with roulette, aquatint, drypoint and burnishing, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.

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Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection

April 18, 2017

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Richard Hamilton, Picasso's meninas: three impressions

Richard Hamilton's *Picasso's Meninas: Three Impressions* pays homage to Picasso's celebrated series of reinterpretations of Velázquez's iconic masterpiece, filtering the work through multiple layers of artistic reinvention. Executed in etching with roulette, aquatint, drypoint, and burnishing on Rives BFK paper, Hamilton employs a rich variety of intaglio techniques to explore texture, tone, and line with remarkable complexity. The suite of three prints reflects Hamilton's enduring fascination with the interplay between high art and reproduction, interrogating how meaning shifts across successive acts of translation and interpretation.

Medium
Three etchings with roulette, aquatint, drypoint and burnishing, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th Century, Male Artist, Etching, British Artist, Printmaking, Pioneering Pop Artist, Figurative Art, Monochromatic, Homage to Picasso, Aquatint

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