Pablo Picassso's Saltimbanques etching

Title: La Danse

The Dance

Medium: Original Etching, Paris, about March 1905, on velin Van Gelder paper. This series was not signed or numbered.

Edition: 250

Reference: Bloch 15 ; Baer 18.b

Note 3: The series of etchings, known as the Saltimbanques, consisted of a group of works all relating to the same theme. Picasso was a very young man when he completed these works but they are considered to be amongst the very best he ever made. The name of the series comes from the Italian words saltare, meaning "to leap," and banco, "bench," which refers to the stage on which the acrobats usually performed.