Picasso's "Grande Femme & Petit Homme Ventru" | Original 156 Series Etching | Plate 37 (Edition 1/50)
This humorous and provocative original etching, titled "Grande Femme & Petit Homme Ventru" (Plate 37), comes from Pablo Picasso's acclaimed 156 Series, which serves as the definitive graphic farewell of his seventy-year artistic odyssey. Created on April 20, 1970, in Mougins, this print showcases the master’s celebrated graphic interplay between monumental feminine beauty and the satirical male voyeur. With sweeping, fluid contour lines, Picasso renders a statuesque, voluptuous female nude seated languidly alongside a diminutive, pot-bellied cavalier adorned in decorative armor and a plumed helmet, a quintessential late-Picasso theatrical meditation on age, chivalry, virility, and the eternal gaze.
Holding the premier distinction of being Edition 1/50, this work was hand-printed on fine deckle-edged Vélin de Rives paper by Picasso's intimate master printers, Aldo & Piero Crommelynck in Mougins, and published posthumously in 1978 by the renowned Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris. Number one of the limited edition, this museum-grade impression offers collectors and connoisseurs an extraordinary, direct connection to the twilight brilliance of the 20th century's foremost artistic titan.
Artwork Details
- Artist: Pablo Picasso
- Title: Plate No. 37, Grande Femme & Petit Homme Ventru
- Date: April 20, 1970
- Medium: Original Etching
- Edition: 1/50
- Signature: Printed Signature (stamped as issued for the 156 Series)
- Image Size: 8" x 5 11⁄16"
- Paper Size: 12 ⅞" x 9 ⅞"
- Paper Type: Vélin de Rives
- Printer: Aldo & Piero Crommelynck, Mougins, France
- Publisher: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1978
- Reference: Bloch 1892, Baer 1898 B a., Orozco Etchings Vol. 3 No. 2925
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Framing included, as pictured