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An original Pablo Picasso mixed media print.

(The Face of Jacqueline the Bride)

March 24, 1961

Original sugar-lift aquatint, scraper, drypoint, burin and direct acid biting printed in black ink on Auvergne wove paper

Dated in the plate lower right 24.3.61 (in reverse).

A superb proof impression of Baer’s seventh state of eighteen, printed after the appearance of the zigzag cut to the background upper left under the crown. One of only 4 such proofs on this paper (there were 3 additional proof impressions printed on Japan paper, for a total of only 7 impressions of this state). Printed by Jacques Frélaut at Atelier Lacourière, Paris (bearing his annotation “VIIe etat” in pencil on the verso).

Catalog: Baer 1089.VII/XVIII; not in Bloch

Size Image: 15 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches

Sheet Size: 20 1/8 x 16 inches

Having already been together for eight years by this time, Picasso and Jacqueline Roque formally became husband and wife on March 2, 1961, in the artist’s 80th year. Though Jacqueline was to be Picasso’s final romantic involvement in the progression of relationships (Olga Koklova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot) that provided much of his artistic inspiration during the course of his career, Jacqueline was only his second wife. His marriage to Jacqueline apparently redefined his interpretation of commitment, and this aquatint stands as a testament to that redefinition. Picasso began work on the plate three weeks after their wedding day. During the course of a single day in his attempt to capture the likeness of his new bride in the ideal manner, the plate was modified through eighteen separate states, having been obsessively attacked during the course of its metamorphosis with the scraper, drypoint needle, burin and vélo. Even so, after it had finally reached its definitive version, and he was satisfied with his achievement, the plate was never published. The tiny number of proofs that were printed of each of the successive states remain an intimate testimony of Picasso’s love for Jacqueline.