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PABLO PICASSO Dans l'Atelier.
Aquatint and burin, 1963. 235x335 mm; 9 1/2x13 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 30/50 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, well-inked impression.
Picasso had a lifelong fascination with the motif of the painter and model in the studio. While works of this theme appear throughout his early and mid-career (see lots 292, 298, 299 and 310), during the last two decades of his life it became among the most frequently recurring motifs in his work. These works take a variety of forms, but in general depict a painter, armed with a palette and brushes, facing a canvas, usually seen from the side, and a nude model (or models in the case of the presetn work), either sitting or reclining. Sometimes the painter is shown alone with the canvas but without the model, while at times the model is shown abstracted.
There is a retrospective quality to Picasso's prolific output of these painter, model and studio-themed works at the culmination of his career, in which he has carefully surveyed the many previous years of his life as an artist and taken the opportunity to examine the meaning of artistic creation--his life-blood for the past seven decades--through the relationship between the three principal participants: the artist, the model and the canvas. Bloch 1138; Baer 1135.
