Spanish Painter and Sculptor, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) often left visual clues on the surfaces of his paintings to suggest a hidden image underneath, as on The Tragedy of 1903. Artists frequently make changes to a painting or reuse a canvas or panel with an image already painted on it. Often the supports are reworked because an artist cannot afford to purchase new materials. An artist also may scrape off an earlier painting and start again or occasionally cover an abandoned image with a uniform coat of ground. Picasso did this very rarely. When he reworked his paintings, he most often did so directly over earlier images, neither using a "clean" side nor obliterating the abandoned attempt. Early in his career, financial constraints were certainly part of his motivation for reusing supports, but Picasso reworked paintings throughout his lifetime. His reworking was not done because he was frugal, but for Picasso the initial subject, the shape or form on the canvas, often revealed itself in a different guise as he worked on or returned to a picture, and it served as a new inspiration.

Title:       Flowers
Medium:  Facsimile Signed in Plate
Image Size:  30 x 24 cm
Provenance: Museu Picasso of Barcelona 

Title:       LOVERS
Medium:  Facsimile Signed in Plate
Image Size:       20 x 21 cm
Provenance: Museu Picasso of Barcelona
 

 Artist:  PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Erotic series DE LA Suite Vollard de Picasso (x 6)

Title:    Mujer desnuda sentada ante una cortina
           Escultor, modelo y busto esculpido
           Escultor reposado II
           Dos modelos vestidas
           Monotauro vencido
           Flautisa y muchacha con una pandereta
Medium:  Facsimile Signed in Plate
Paper Size: 30 x 24 cm

Price (framed):    $750 each

Price (unframed): $450

Provenance: Museu Picasso of Barcelona 
 

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Reproduction de 4 grabados originales de la Suite 156 (1971) Erotic series (x 4)
 

Artist: PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Title:   Degas con su album. Celestina y tres chicas
          Chica con brazalete y Degas con las manos en la aspalda
          Mujer con flores y retrato de barbudo. Degas de perfil
          Casa Tellier. Grupo de chicas y Degas mirando
Medium:  Facsimile Signed in Plate
Paper Size: 30 x 24 cm

Price (framed):    $750 each

Price (unframed): $450 each

Provenance: Museu Picasso of Barcelona 
 

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Artist:   PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Reproduction de 4 grabados originales de tematica circense (x 4)
 

Title:     En el circo: la amazona rubla;
            En el circo: la amazona morena;
            En el circo: crobatas, jirafas, nadadoras...;
            En el circo: halterofilla
Medium: Facsimile Signed in Plate
Paper Size: 30 x 24 cm

Price (framed):    $750  each

Price (unframed): $450  each

Provenance: Museu Picasso of Barcelona 
 

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 Spanish Painter and Sculptor, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) often left visual clues on the surfaces of his paintings to suggest a hidden image underneath, as on The Tragedy of 1903. Artists frequently make changes to a painting or reuse a canvas or panel with an image already painted on it. Often the supports are reworked because an artist cannot afford to purchase new materials. An artist also may scrape off an earlier painting and start again or occasionally cover an abandoned image with a uniform coat of ground. Picasso did this very rarely. When he reworked his paintings, he most often did so directly over earlier images, neither using a "clean" side nor obliterating the abandoned attempt. Early in his career, financial constraints were certainly part of his motivation for reusing supports, but Picasso reworked paintings throughout his lifetime. His reworking was not done because he was frugal, but for Picasso the initial subject, the shape or form on the canvas, often revealed itself in a different guise as he worked on or returned to a picture, and it served as a new inspiration.