PICASSO AND THE CIRCUS/ FIN

The book analyzes the circus and related spectacles in fin-de-siecle Paris, and how they were interpreted by print arts of the era, including Jules Cheret, Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Henri Gray, Edgar Chahine, and Richard Ranft. It then considers Pablo Picasso's Suite d e Saltimbanques (1904-6), an early and highly important series of etchings and drypoints related primarily to acrobats