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View source →Pablo Picasso, 1905, published 1913
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate 40.3 × 34.7 cm
Style
Rose Period Print
Decade
1900s
The drypoint brings a biblical and theatrical subject into Picasso's Saltimbanques print vocabulary, relying on etched line rather than painted color. Picasso's choice of drypoint shapes how the subject is encountered: the material, scale, and method are not incidental but part of the artwork's visual argument. The record is held by Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, whose direct object page verifies the canonical title, date, medium, dimensions, and collection attribution. This catalog entry therefore distinguishes documented facts from interpretive reading and directs visitors to the institutional record for further research.
MoMA identifies this as a 1905 drypoint published in 1913; both dates are necessary to distinguish the design's creation from this edition's publication. The work belongs in a broader account of Picasso's sustained shifts among drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture rather than in a simplified single-style narrative. Its museum object number and rights statement allow the gallery to provide reliable scholarship without presenting an unlicensed reproduction as if it were freely reusable. The site will retain the official collection link as the authoritative factual reference and use a rights-aware fallback for the image display.
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2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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