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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Pablo Picasso, Théâtre ou télévision: cape et épée , 1968

Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973

Théâtre ou télévision: cape et épée , 1968
Aquatinte et pointe-sèche
Image: 29.5 x 34.5 cm
Sheet: 45.5 x 52 cm
N° 18/50
From an edition of 50.
Printed by the Atelier Crommelynck, Paris
Edited by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Signé en bas à droite
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Picasso's interest in the theatre began very early: the artist met his first wife, Olga, while designing costumes for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Picasso's first major suite, published by Vollard, was the Suite des Saltimbanques, dealing with the arts of spectacle.
Picasso's fascination with the theatre and the performing arts more generally runs through the creation of the Suite de 347, Picasso's last major series in printmaking. The artist undertook this work in Mougins, between 16 March and 8 October 1968, in a period of great creative fertility. The Suite was dedicated to Jaime Sabartès, his secretary and confidant. The themes of the circus, theatre and television, a new fashion in the mid-twentieth century, are recurrent in the Suite. Picasso took advantage of them to stage dramatic subjects, not without irony. The subject matter, as Geiser/Baer also points out, is probably taken from an episode of Dumas' Three Musketeers. Thus Spectacle or Television, inspired by popular epic cloak-and-dagger stories, is a staging of the spectator himself.
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L’intérêt de Picasso pour le théâtre commence très tôt: l’artiste fera la connaissance de sa première femme, Olga, lors de sa réalisation des costumes pour les Ballets russes de Diaghilev. La première grande suite de Picasso, éditée par Vollard, est la Suite des Saltimbanques.

La fascination de Picasso pour le théâtre et les arts du spectacle plus généralement traverse la réalisation de la Suite de 347, la pénultime grande série de Picasso à l’estampe. L’artiste entreprend ce travail à Mougins, entre le 16 mars et 8 octobre 1968, dans une période de grande fécondité créative. La Suite sera dédiée à Jaime Sabartès, son secrétaire et confidant. Les thèmes du cirque, du théâtre et de la télévision, nouvelle mode du milieu du XXe siècle, sont récurrentes dans la Suite. Picasso profitent pour mettre en scène des sujets dramatiques, non sans ironie. Le sujet, comme Geiser/ Baer signale également, est probablement tiré d’un épisode des Trois mousquetaires de Dumas. Ainsi, Spectacle ou télévision, inspiré des histoires populaires épiques de cape et épée, est une mise en scène du spectateur-même.

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Provenance

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York (institutional stamp on the verso)

Private collection, Germany

Literature

Bloch n° 1567

Geiser/Baer n°1583 III B

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