This print was produced to celebrate a special exhibition held at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, on the occasion of the artist's 85th birthday. The museum published five prints, each featuring an image of a major painting from its collection. They were released in a hand-signed edition of sixty, and are known collectively as the Barcelona Suite.

The Museu Picasso opened its doors to the public in 1963. It had been a complicated venture; following Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, Picasso had sworn never to set foot in his homeland again until democracy was restored. His hostile relationship with the Spanish government meant that the museum was opened as a private initiative based on a personal donation of 574 artworks by Picasso's lifelong friend and secretary Jaume Sabartés. Other donations followed, some from Picasso himself, and the museum gradually grew in importance.

This print is based on a 1901 painting that had been acquired by Barcelona's municipal art collection in 1932, before being incorporated into the Museu Picasso. Titled The Dwarf, it dates from Picasso's brief Post-Impressionist period. In 1901 Picasso had been offered his first exhibition in Paris by Ambroise Vollard; for several weeks he worked frantically to create enough work for the show, sometimes producing two paintings a day. He sold half of the roughly seventy-five paintings exhibited - an astonishing success for a nineteen year-old debutant. 

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