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Pablo Picasso: Amours de Jupiter et de Sémélé (1933) | Etching 28" x 20" artwork The gilded blossom is alsoPablo Picasso (18811973) Amours de Jupiter et de Sml, 1930 (published 1931) Etching with remarques on Rives wove paper Cancelled plate suite of 100 This etching belongs to the suite Picasso produced for the ditions de la Pliade publication of Ovid's Metamorphoses one of the defining collaborations between a major twentieth century artist and a canonical text of Western literature. The commission gave Picasso licence to engage with the full