Untitled, 1949
It is our good fortune that Picasso had such a great love of printmaking. By the time he died in 1973 he had produced a substantial body of original etchings, lithographs and linocuts, which rank with the greatest prints of the 20th Century. While the ownership of an original painting is, for the majority of us, out of the question, his original prints made in small editions remain relatively accessible.
Carmen, Prosper Mérimée's novella, was written in 1845 (the definitive version appeared in 1847). It is at once a rather romanticised account of the customs of the Andalusian gypsies and the dramatic story of a fatal passion. While travelling in Spain, the narrator meets a bandit, José Navarro, and does him a favour. Shortly there after, in Cordoba, he again runs into José, in altercation with a beautiful gypsy, Carmen. Several months later, in Cordoba again, the narrator hears that the brigand has been arrested and is going to be executed. In prison, Don José tells the narrator his story: as a young man of gentle and serious character, he had been bewitched by Carmen. For her, he had become a brigand, thief, and assassin. When Carmen left him for a picador, José despaired and killed her. Chapter IV is a dissertation on the gypsy people, particularly those of Andalusia. The story of Carmen, which became popular through Georges Bizet's opera (1875), evoked in Picasso associations with Spain and the corrida.
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