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Salomé
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Salomé

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), artist; Louis Fort (French, active 1800s–1900s), printer; Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939), publisher · 1905, printed 1913 · etching and drypoint

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Around the same time that Picasso made this etching, his friend Guillaume Apollinaire also wrote a poem about the biblical figure of Salomé.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineThe Saltimbanques: Salomé, 1905, printed 1913. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Louis Fort (French, active 1800s–1900s), Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939). Etching and drypoint; image and plate: 40.2 x 34.7 cm (15 13/16 x 13 11/16 in.); sheet: 63.5 x 50 cm (25 x 19 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1929.897
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