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1948
Burin engraving
32 x 23,5 cm – 12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.
by Pablo Picasso

Framed work

Giant amongst giants, we won’t offend anyone by introducing the Spanish artist, who became both a role model for painters and a gold mine for auction houses–his Femmes d’Alger. Version O exceeded 160 million euros in auction in New York in May 2015! For all that, wholeheartedly admiring the simple genius of his engraving stroke is permitted, here it is expressed through one of the 38 burin engravings he made to illustrate Carmen, book published in Paris in 1949, 320 copies were printed.