Pablo Picasso | Couple, from La Magie Quotidienne

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Couple, from La Magie Quotidienne (Bloch 1460)

In 1968, the Paris publisher L. Broder brought together ten etchings by eight leading figures of the European avant-garde — Picasso, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró and Jean Arp among them — into a single portfolio titled La Magie Quotidienne (Daily Magic). Picasso, then in his late eighties, contributed this etching, simply titled Couple, to the set.

The image distils two figures into a single dancing, intertwined mass, rendered in Picasso’s late, loose etched line. Surrounded by works from Surrealism’s senior generation, Couple sits at the meeting point of figuration and abstraction that defines much of Picasso’s late graphic work.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Etching on paper
40 × 30 cm (sheet); 56 × 46 cm (framed)
Signed by the artist
From the portfolio La Magie Quotidienne, 1968, published by L. Broder, Paris