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"Click Pin it to share this product on Pinterest! An original etching printed in black ink on Rives wove paper, dated in the plate at the lower left &amp;quot;11.12.66.III&amp;quot; (in reverse). This is a superb impression of Baer\u2019s only state from the edition of 150, printed after the steel-facing of the plate (there were 30 additional pencil-signed impressions, 18 printer\u2019s proofs, and 2 legal deposit impressions, for an overall edition of 200). Plate IX of XII from the album Le Cocu magnifique, illustrating the text of the same title by Fernand Crommelynck. Published by \u00C9ditions de l\u2019Atelier Crommelynck, Paris, 1968; printed at Atelier Crommelynck, Paris. Catalogue reference: Bloch 1252; Baer 1440; Cramer 140 IX. Le Cocu magnifique, farce en trois actes was presented for the first time on December 18, 1920 at the Th\u00E9\u00E2tre de la Maison de l\u2019oeuvre on the rue de Clichy in Paris, with R. Camier and Lugn\u00E9-Poe in the principal roles. The text of the play was published in 1921 by \u00C9ditions de la Sir\u00E8ne. It tells the story of a jealous man, Bruno, who -- because of his very jealousy -- ends by losing his wife, Stella. Despite the amusing dialogue, one soon realizes that this \u201Cfarce\u201D is not funny and that Crommelynck is not mocking the problems of his characters. Bruno is the kind of man who only sees an enemy in the other sex (instead of seeing a complement); he seeks to master, to possess a woman, but he can never attain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. Frustrated, he becomes aggressive and violent, and happiness is denied to him. Because he cannot bear Stella\u2019s love, he will in the end be cuckolded. Picasso knew Fernand Crommelynck and had for a long time intended to illustrate this play. In the 1940s he had met the playwright\u2019s son, Aldo, who was working in Roger Lacouri\u00E8re\u2019s printing shop. In 1963, Aldo and his brother, Piero, opened their own atelier for engraving at Mougins; it was here that the large suites of engravings Picasso did in his last years were printed. And it was the \u201C\u00C9ditions de l\u2019Atelier Crommelynck\u201D that published this album, in 1968, two years before Fernand Crommelynck\u2019s death. To illustrate Le Cocu magnifique, Picasso created scenes with characters from his own personal mythology. Thus the cuckold, or \u201Cthe horned one\u201D, is associated with the Minotaur, or \u201Cbull man\u201D; in his old age, his lasciviousness becomes a farce without being amusing. Picasso\u2019s manner of staging Le Cocu magnifique, like Crommelynck\u2019s is untrammeled and without repression. The twelve engravings -- four for each of the three acts -- are part of a series of about 65 which Picasso created between November 6th and December 19th, 1966. Pablo Picasso is arguably the most discussed, exhibited, and influential artist of the 20th Century. Together with Georges Bracques, he founded the Cubist movement, and continued to dominate the trajectory of Modern art through his long life. This work is part of a carefully curated selection by noted fine art expert Jennifer McCloskey, who was formerly affiliated with Doyle Gallery in New York and is now based in San Francisco. If you have questions about any of the works in this selection, please send an email to asktheexpert@onekingslane.com."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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