About this artwork
This bold and lively print shows a celebration on a hillside, with dancers and musicians accompanied by a goat. In 1959, the year this linocut was made, Picasso developed a new and simple method of printing. Instead of using a separate linoleum block for each colour, he cut the block, printed a full edition of fifty sheets, and then returned to the same block which he re-cut and then reprinted in a different colour over the same sheets. Most of the linocuts he made from 1959-62 were printed in a limited range of colours and overlaid with a black design, as with this work.
Updated before 2020
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artist:
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title:Bacchanale [Bacchanal]
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date created:1959
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materials:Colour linocut on paper (25/50)
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measurements:Image size: 52.50 x 63.60 cm; paper size: 62.10 x 75.00 cm (framed: 78.00 x 87.30 x 4.50 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1962
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accession number:GMA 825
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
The son of an artist, Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, and studied at art school in Barcelona. He visited Paris in 1900 and after several extended stays settled there in 1904. Picasso was a hugely prolific and highly influential artist who worked in numerous styles throughout his life. His cubist...