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Picasso Etching Plate

Pour Roby, 1950 Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, 1950 Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, 1950 Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By (after) Pablo Picasso

Located in Pasadena, CA

produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso’s “Pour Roby.” In

Category

Late 20th Century Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique

Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique Etching, 1968 Unsigned From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions

Category

1960s Modern Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique
Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique

Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique etching & aquatint, 1968 Unsigned as usual From the unsigned edition

Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Plate I, Le Cocu Magnifique
Plate I, Le Cocu Magnifique

Plate I, Le Cocu Magnifique

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Plate I, Le Cocu Magnifique Etching, 1968 From: Le Cocu Magnifique Unsigned as issued in the

Category

1960s French School Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Plate X, Le Cocu Magnifique
Plate X, Le Cocu Magnifique

Pablo PicassoPlate X, Le Cocu Magnifique

$3,500

H 11.13 in W 14.88 in

Plate X, Le Cocu Magnifique

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Plate X, Le Cocu Magnifique Etching & aquatint, 1968 Unsigned Edition: From the unsigned edition of

Category

1960s French School Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI), from Carmen
Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI), from Carmen

Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI), from Carmen

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on

Category

1940s Cubist Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

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Picasso: La Barre d'appui: three plates
Picasso: La Barre d'appui: three plates

Picasso: La Barre d'appui: three plates

By Pablo Picasso

Located in New York, NY

Three etchings with aquatint on Chine paper Each one of three proofs after the plates were

Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Sitting Dog - Etching Signed in the Plate
Sitting Dog - Etching Signed in the Plate

Sitting Dog - Etching Signed in the Plate

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Paris, IDF

(after) Pablo Picasso Sitting dog Etching, 1954 Signed in the plate Edition of 200 copies

Category

1950s Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

Le Cocu Magnifique - Plate V
Le Cocu Magnifique - Plate V

Le Cocu Magnifique - Plate V

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

theatre and of the world of performing arts. Pablo Picasso creates the series of etchings for this work in

Category

1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Plate 2; Le Cocu Magnifique

Plate 2; Le Cocu Magnifique

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairlawn, OH

of 30 impressions The set of 12 etching & aquatints is signed by Picasso on the justification page

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

The Eye (Plate X), from Carmen
The Eye (Plate X), from Carmen

The Eye (Plate X), from Carmen

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Original copper plate with cancellation mark with matching etching on

Category

1940s Portrait Prints

Materials

Copper

Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI)
Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI)

Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Original copper plate with cancellation mark with matching etching on

Category

1940s Portrait Prints

Materials

Copper

Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX)
Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX)

Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Original copper plate with cancellation mark with matching etching on

Category

1940s Portrait Prints

Materials

Copper

Square Face Smirking (Plate XXX), from Carmen
Square Face Smirking (Plate XXX), from Carmen

Square Face Smirking (Plate XXX), from Carmen

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Square Face Smirking (Plate XXX) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on

Category

1940s Cubist Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Head of a Woman with Mantilla (Plate I)

Head of a Woman with Mantilla (Plate I)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper Title: Head of a Woman with

Category

1940s Cubist Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Les Trois mousquetaires, Series 347, Plate 91
Les Trois mousquetaires, Series 347, Plate 91

Les Trois mousquetaires, Series 347, Plate 91

By Pablo Picasso

Located in OPOLE, PL

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Les Trois mousquetaires, Series 347, Plate 91 Etching and aquatint

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Head of a Woman with Mantilla (Plate I)
Head of a Woman with Mantilla (Plate I)

Head of a Woman with Mantilla (Plate I)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper Title: Head of a Woman with

Category

1940s Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Carmen Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI)
Carmen Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI)

Carmen Square Head of a Man (Plate XXXI)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Pablo Picasso Carmen Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Copper plate with cancellation mark with

Category

1940s Cubist Portrait Prints

Materials

Copper

Carmen Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX)
Carmen Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX)

Carmen Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Pablo Picasso Carmen Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Copper plate with cancellation mark with

Category

1940s Cubist Portrait Prints

Materials

Copper

Monogram "J" with Design (Plate VII), from Carmen

Monogram "J" with Design (Plate VII), from Carmen

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Monogram "J" with Design (Plate VII) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching

Category

1940s Cubist Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680
Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680

Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairfield, CT

etching plate for Picasso’s “Pour Roby.” In 1950, Leblanc printed the 1st edition of "Pour Roby" in an

Category

1960s Cubist Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680
Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680

Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairfield, CT

etching plate for Picasso’s “Pour Roby.” In 1950, Leblanc printed the 1st edition of "Pour Roby" in an

Category

1960s Cubist Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680
Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680

Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil 1950), Bloch 680

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairfield, CT

etching plate for Picasso’s “Pour Roby.” In 1950, Leblanc printed the 1st edition of "Pour Roby" in an

Category

1960s Cubist Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1950s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pour Roby, 1969 Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso
Pour Roby, 1969 Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

Pour Roby, 1969 Limited Edition Etching, Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

Collectors’ Guild produced a great deal of work with Monsieur Leblanc. He had the etching plate for Picasso

Category

1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Happy Dog - Etching Signed in the Plate
Happy Dog - Etching Signed in the Plate

Happy Dog - Etching Signed in the Plate

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Paris, IDF

(after) Pablo Picasso Happy dog Etching, 1954 Signed in the plate Edition of 200 copies unnumbered

Category

1950s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

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Untitled (One Cent Life) /// Joan Mitchell Female Artist Abstract Expressionism

Untitled (One Cent Life) /// Joan Mitchell Female Artist Abstract Expressionism

By Joan Mitchell

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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"La Ligne"  Limited Edition Art Print by Christiane Lemieux - 40" x 40"

"La Ligne" Limited Edition Art Print by Christiane Lemieux - 40" x 40"

Located in New York, NY

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Patron et sa Suite en Visite à l’Atelier - Etching by P. Picasso - 1968
Patron et sa Suite en Visite à l’Atelier - Etching by P. Picasso - 1968

Patron et sa Suite en Visite à l’Atelier - Etching by P. Picasso - 1968

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

Hand signed. Edition 35 of 50. From the Serie “Les 347”, table no. 110. Perfect impression on vélin blanc, very fresh and with sheet in full margins and perfect conditions, numbered ...

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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Deux Femmes Nues - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1930
Deux Femmes Nues - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1930

Deux Femmes Nues - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1930

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

Etching on wove Arches paper. Hand signed and numbered in ink. Edition of 81/125 prints. Published by Editions Albert Skira, Paris, in 1930. Very good condition. Catalogue Bloch no. ...

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1930s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

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Pablo Picasso, "Tête de Femme", original linoleum cut, hand signed

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By Pablo Picasso

Located in Chatsworth, CA

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Combat pour Andromède entre Persée et Phinée - From "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"
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Combat pour Andromède entre Persée et Phinée - From "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

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Etching

Pablo Picasso, "La Fete de la Madame, " dry point etching
Pablo Picasso, "La Fete de la Madame, " dry point etching

Pablo Picasso, "La Fete de la Madame, " dry point etching

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Chatsworth, CA

This piece is an original dry point etching with aquatint and scraper, created by Pablo Picasso in 1971, for the 156 Series. This piece is stamp signed and numbered from the edition ...

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Etching, Aquatint

Trois Hommes se Disputant une Femme Devant un Emir-Etching by Pablo Picasso-1966
Trois Hommes se Disputant une Femme Devant un Emir-Etching by Pablo Picasso-1966

Trois Hommes se Disputant une Femme Devant un Emir-Etching by Pablo Picasso-1966

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Etching

19 September 1968 - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1968
19 September 1968 - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1968

19 September 1968 - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1968

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

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Etching

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By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

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12 Mai 1970 - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1970
12 Mai 1970 - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1970

12 Mai 1970 - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1970

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

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Etching

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Pablo Picasso, "Grand Tête" original linocut in colors, hand signed

Pablo Picasso, "Grand Tête" original linocut in colors, hand signed

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Chatsworth, CA

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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Personnages Masqués et Femme Oiseau - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1934
Personnages Masqués et Femme Oiseau - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1934

Personnages Masqués et Femme Oiseau - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1934

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Roma, IT

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1930s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Picasso Etching Plate For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate picasso etching plate for your needs in our varied inventory. There are many modern, abstract and minimalist versions of these works for sale. Making the right choice when shopping for a picasso etching plate may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 18th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 20th Century. When looking for the right picasso etching plate for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, beige, white and brown. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in etching, copper and metal.

How Much is a Picasso Etching Plate?

The price for a picasso etching plate in our collection starts at $375 and tops out at $29,995 with the average selling for $2,495.

Pablo Picasso for sale on 1stDibs

One of the most prolific and revolutionary artists the world has ever seen, Pablo Picasso had a tremendous impact on the development of 20th-century modern art. Although he is best known for his association with the Cubist movement, which he founded with Georges Braque, Picasso’s influence extends to Surrealism, neoclassicism and Expressionism.

“Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction,” the Spanish artist proclaimed. In Picasso's Cubist paintings, he emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas, breaking with conventions regarding perspective, foreshortening and proportion. Picasso was inspired by Iberian and African tribal art. One of his most famous pre-Cubist works is Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), a painting considered immoral and shocking at the time for its depiction of nude women whose faces resemble Iberian tribal masks.

Picasso made many portraits in this style, most often of the women in his life, their expressively colored faces composed of geometric shards of surface planes. In Woman in a Hat (Olga), 1935, he painted his first wife as an assemblage of abstract forms, leaving the viewer to decipher the subject through the contrasting colors and shapes. Picasso was a tireless artist, creating more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and sculptures. Tracing his life’s work reveals the progression of modern art, on which he had an unparalleled influence.

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Finding the Right Prints-works-on-paper for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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