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Picasso's meninas, from Hommage à Picasso portfolio

Printer the artist and Aldo Crommelynck French, born Monaco
Publisher Propyläen Verlag German
1973
Not on view
In 1972, the year he first saw Velázquez’s masterpiece Las Meninas (1656) in Madrid’s Prado museum, Hamilton was asked to contribute to the print portfolio Hommage à Picasso. His solution, this tour de force of intaglio printmaking, is a tribute to both Spanish painters: each of Velázquez’s characters is reimagined in a different Picasso style. Picasso had his own obsessions with Las Meninas; in fall 1957 he composed more than forty variations. Here, in Velázquez’s stead, Hamilton depicts Picasso at work on the enormous canvas, the hammer and sickle a sign of the Spaniard’s political affiliation.

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  • Title: Picasso's meninas, from Hommage à Picasso portfolio
  • Artist: Richard Hamilton (British, London 1922–2011 Oxfordshire)
  • Printer: the artist and Aldo Crommelynck (French (born Monaco) 1931–2008 Paris)
  • Publisher: Propyläen Verlag
  • Date: 1973
  • Medium: Hard, soft-ground and stipple etching, roulette, open-bite and lift-ground aquatint, drypoint and burnishing
  • Edition: épreuves d'artistes 12/15 from an edition of 90 with Arabic numerals and 30 with Roman numerals + 15 artist's proofs, 15 épreuves d'artistes, 15 publisher's proofs, 15 hors commerce proofs, 1 bon à tirer and 2 printer's proofs
  • Dimensions: 29 13/16 × 22 5/8 in. (75.8 × 57.4 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.16
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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