Bacchanal with a Child Playing Cymbals

Pablo Picasso|Jacques Frélaut|Galerie Louise Leiris

1955, printed 1961 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Picasso was devoted to printmaking throughout his career, producing some two thousand images over more than seven decades. He usually explored his subjects through a series of variations on a theme. This etching is part of a series of bacchanals that are linear, modernist treatments of a traditional pictorial subject.

Artist

Pablo Picasso|Jacques Frélaut|Galerie Louise Leiris

Date

1955, printed 1961

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Reiss-Cohen Inc., 1983