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
Art Institute of Chicago
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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.
Collections
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National Museum
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in Oslo, Norway
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Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain
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Picasso Museum in Paris, France
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National Library of Paris
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Places in the United States
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, France
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The British Museum
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, United Kingdom
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Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewa ...
, United States
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Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It holds many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lic ...
, Germany
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The Israel Museum
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, Jerusalem
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Gottfried Keller-Stiftung
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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''.
References
{{Pablo Picasso
1968 works
20th-century etchings
Etchings by Pablo Picasso