Etching on BFK Rives
France, 1969
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) – Spanish Cubist painter and printmaker
‘Orgie chez les Filles, avec Spectateurs’
Signed in pencil lower right 'Picasso'
Numbered in pencil lower left '5/50'
Plate 153 from Séries 347
Printed by Lacourière, Paris
Published by Galerie L. Leiris, Paris
Bloch 1633; Baer 1649
Full margins; framed, wood frame painted silver
Sheet dimensions: 14 ¾ x 10 ¾ in. (37.5 x 27 cm.)
Good condition

The last great series of Picasso graphic works was titled the 347 Series and consists of 347 different etchings, engravings and drypoints, all hand-signed examples out of an edition of 50 completed between March 16 and October 5, 1968. This series was made in collaboration with the master printers Aldo and Piero Crommelynck at their studio at Mougins, in the South of France. Printed by Lacourière, Paris and published by Galerie L. Leiris, Paris.

This is plate 153 out of the series and is titled Orgie chez les Filles, avec Spectateurs which translates to "a Female Orgy with Spectateurs". The347 Series is known for its erotic subject. This piece is signed and numbered five from an edition of fifty, measures 14 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches and has full margins. In overall good condition with no evidence of tears or repairs.

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)

A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by Primitivism and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. Along with Georges Braque, Picasso is best known for pioneering Cubism in an attempt to reconcile three-dimensional space with the two-dimensional picture plane. Picasso’s sizable oeuvre includes over 50,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs.