Old clown with a lovely person - Pablo Picasso - "La Celestine"

Pablo Picasso "La Celestine"
April 24, 1968 size: 12.5 x 9.0 cm

Sugar aquatint etching with hand on copper
Printed on paper "Vergé d'Auvergne Richard de Bas" (with watermark)
single state
country of origin: • private art collection
Illustration n. LIV text: Fernando de Rojas, La Celestine, Pablo Picasso, Éditions de l'Atelier
Crommelynck, Paris 1971
The space that separates the woman from the clown is lighter than their cap because the acid was placed at the end
of the machining process. The woman could be a representation of Melibea.