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The ''347 Series'' or ''347 Suite'' is a series of etchings by the Spanish artist
Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...
executed between March 16 and October 8 1968. The work was Picasso's largest in terms of the number of individual prints in the series; and his penultimate large etching series before the ''156 Series'' of 1969-1972. It was dedicated to his friend Jamie Sabartes. No name was given by Picasso to the series. The 347 series was first displayed at the
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and Paris's Galerie Louise Leris in 1970. Picasso was assisted by the Parisian printers Aldo and Piero Crommelynck, who had established an etching workshop near Picasso's Mougins residence.


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, Switzerland Random House published a two volume boxed set of the ''347 Series'' in 1970, published as ''Pablo Picasso: Suite 347''.


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{{Pablo Picasso 1968 works 20th-century etchings Etchings by Pablo Picasso