Picasso’s Meninas

Richard Hamilton

Creative process of the print carried out at the Atelier Crommelynck, Paris, for the portfolio.

Hommage à Picasso commissioned to commemorate Picasso’s ninetieth birthday, Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, 1974

1973

Collection of the Artist

Studies and Working Drawings

1. Study I

Pen and black ink, grey ink wash, lead white, pencil and Conté crayon

2. Study II

Pen and black ink, grey and black ink wash, lead white, pencil, Conté crayon and colour pencils

3. Working Drawing I

Laterally reversed photographic print of study II

Pen and black ink, pencil, gouache and lead white

4. Study III

Pen and black ink, grey and black ink wash, lead white, pencil and Conté crayon

5. Working Drawing II

Pen and black ink, and pencil on tracing paper

Stage Proofs

6. Stage Proof I

Etching, sugar aquatint and stipple engraving

7. Stage Proof II

Etching, sugar aquatint, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, drypoint and burnishing

8-11. Stage Proofs III-VI

Etching, sugar aquatint, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, roulette, drypoint and burnishing

12. Final State (Artist’s Proof AP 1/15)

Etching, sugar aquatint, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, roulette, drypoint and burnishing

Other works

13. Las Meninas

Pablo Picasso

Blue pencil, Paper removed from a sketchbook

1957

Barcelona, Museu Picasso, donated by Catherine Hutin, 2009

14. Las meninas

Francisco de Goya

Pencil underdrawing. Red chalk and traces of black pencil on Dutch laid paper

ca. 1778

Madrid, Private Collection

15. Las Meninas

Francisco de Goya

Working proof before the lavis. Etching, aquatint, drypoint, burin, and roulette, on laid paper

Obverse: printed in red ink

Reverse: printed in black ink, upside down

ca. 1778-79

Madrid, Private Collection

16. Las Meninas

Francisco de Goya

Working proof. Etching, lavis over sulfur tint and/or crayon manner, drypoint, burin, and roulette, on laid paper

ca. 1778-79

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

17. Las Meninas

Francisco de Goya

Working Proof before the burin and roulette. Etching, aquatint and drypoint on laid paper

ca. 1778-79

Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional

18. Velázquez’s Las Meninas

Laurent (?)

Albumen print

Last quarter of the nineteenth century

Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado