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PABLO PICASSO Portrait de Pierre Crommelynck.
Etching and aquatint, 1966. 560x395 mm; 22x15 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 50. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression.
Brothers Aldo, Piero, and Milan Crommelynck were responsible for printing an astonishing 45 percent of Pablo Picasso's intaglio prints. Piero (or Pierre), the youngest brother, who bore a resemblance to Don Quixote, was the model for numerous Picasso portraits from the 1960s-70s and his likeness was used for Picasso's bearded musketeer who appears frequently in the Celestine images of the 347 Gravures. The Crommelynck family were instrumental in Picasso's late-career productivity and kept up with the aging artist's relentless pace. Bloch 1378; Baer 1400.
