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PABLO PICASSO Trois Figures se tenant debout.
Drypoint, 1960. 268x210 mm; 105/8x81/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 15, before steel facing. Signed in pencil, lower right. Printed by Frélaut, Paris. A superb impression on cream laid paper.
The influence of Rembrandt's graphic work appears significantly for the first time in Picasso's Vollard Suite, a series of 100 etchings executed in the early 1930s and named for the publisher Ambroise Vollard. Picasso adopted imagery from Rembrandt's prints intermittently through his mid-career and the old master's influence is again seen strongly from around 1960 onward. Picasso's admiration for Rembrandt in particular and other earlier masters, such as Delacroix and Manet, bordered on competition. Regarding Delcaroix's "Les Femmes d'Alger," a subject which occupied Picasso in early 1955, he stated, "That bastard. He's really good" (Viejo/Cohen, Etched on the Memory, The Presence of Rembrandt in the Prints of Goya and Picasso, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 80). Similarly, he said, "When I see Manet's "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" I say to myself: trouble in store," (Viejo/Cohen, p. 80). In 1944, when reviewing with François Gilot the etchings he had made for the Vollard suite in the previous decade, he commented, "Every painter takes himself for Rembrandt. Everbody has the same delusions," (Viejo/Cohen, p. 81). Bloch 984; Baer 1069.
