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| Picasso's etchings for Vingt Poèmes, Luis de Góngora y Argote. |
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(07 Sep 2004) |
Picasso completed the Góngora suite in 1948. Luis de Góngora y Argote, who was born in Cordoba in 1561, had been hailed by García Lorca as the father of modern poetry. Picasso made etchings to illustrate his poems using the lift ground process. He drew directly onto the copper plates - without retouches - sometimes with a brush and sometimes with a pen. He also copied the twenty sonnets in Spanish in his own hand, decorating them richly with remarques.
The total edition was 275 which included 25 hors commerce sets, numbered I to XXV. The prints on offer here are from set XXIII. None of the prints were signed. A copy of the justification page accompanies each print. The paper size is 37.5 x 27.5 cm. |
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