"Reitre" Abducting a Woman on Account of a Knight (347 Series, B.1626)
""Reitre" Abducting a Woman on Account of a Knight (B.1626)" is an aquatint created by Pablo Picasso in 1968, from his renowned '347 Series'. From the edition of 68, the art is signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left. The image size is 2.375 x 3.25" and the artwork is framed in a custom, Spanish-style, closed-corner, black and gold frame. The artwork ships framed and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. In printmaking, the 347 Series was the undertaking which defined late Picasso. This prodigious outpouring of work, dating from March 16th–October 5th, 1968, deals with all of his old themes and fantasies, adding an obsession newly central in the late sixties, the artist as voyeur. It is in this role, rather than that of a protagonist, that the artist figures in these fantastic narration's. The series has been described as taking the form of a stream-of-consciousness epic. There is a suggestion of narratives throughout the series; however, there is never a poi