Aquatint and etching;
Signature stamp lower right, numbered lower left: 18/50;
Sheet size: 14.9 × 18.5 in / Plate size: 8.8 × 12.6 in inch
Catalogue raisonné Bloch 1433
The title translates as: The Betrayed Husband Posing for a Photograph in Front of an Audience.
This late graphic work reflects Pablo Picasso’s enduring fascination with the dynamics between artists, models, and voyeuristic spectators, and revisits the motif of the “painter and model,” which appears frequently throughout his late work. (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
