Circus. Repetition (Le cirque. Répétition)
1933
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etching [printed in 1939 by Roger Lacouriere]
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.16.195
Art Historical Context
**Circus. Repetition (Le cirque. Répétition)**, an etching by Pablo Picasso from 1933 and printed in 1939 by master printer Roger Lacourière, captures the artist's fascination with the circus world during a pivotal period in his career. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosen Collection, this print belongs to Picasso's renowned Vollard Suite, a series of 100 etchings dedicated to dealer Ambroise Vollard. In the early 1930s, amid the interwar years' social turbulence, Picasso turned to the circus as a for human fragility, performance, and spectacle—echoing the melancholy grace of performe...
About the Artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso in Málaga, Spain, was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art professor who served as his first teacher. From age seven, Picasso trained under his father in figure drawing and oil painting, mastering naturalistic techniques by copying mas...