Pablo Picasso Art
Spanish, 1881-1973
One of the most prolific and revolutionary artists the world has ever seen, Pablo Picasso had a tremendous impact on the development of 20th-century modern art. Although he is best known for his association with the Cubist movement, which he founded with Georges Braque, Picasso’s influence extends to Surrealism, neoclassicism and Expressionism.
“Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction,” the Spanish artist proclaimed. In Picasso's Cubist paintings, he emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas, breaking with conventions regarding perspective, foreshortening and proportion. Picasso was inspired by Iberian and African tribal art. One of his most famous pre-Cubist works is Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), a painting considered immoral and shocking at the time for its depiction of nude women whose faces resemble Iberian tribal masks.
Picasso made many portraits in this style, most often of the women in his life, their expressively colored faces composed of geometric shards of surface planes. In Woman in a Hat (Olga), 1935, he painted his first wife as an assemblage of abstract forms, leaving the viewer to decipher the subject through the contrasting colors and shapes. Picasso was a tireless artist, creating more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and sculptures. Tracing his life’s work reveals the progression of modern art, on which he had an unparalleled influence.
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Artist: Pablo Picasso
"Bonne Fête Monsieur Picasso" - The UCLA Art Galleries by Pablo Picasso, 1961
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Medium: Original Lithographic Poster, 1961
Dimensions: 38.75 x 25 in, 98.4 x 63.5 cm
Classic Poster Paper - Perfect Condition A+
This whimsical exhibition poster was an original design by Pablo Picasso for the University of California exhibition in 1961. Picasso's attribution 'for UCLA' can be seen written beneath a colorful bouquet of flowers, full of movement and life. Curated from Southern California collections of Picasso work, the exhibition celebrated Picasso's 81st birthday and entitled "Bonne Fête...
Category
1960s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
1969 Original lithograph by Pablo Picasso titled "Hommage à René Char"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in PARIS, FR
The original lithograph by Pablo Picasso, titled "Hommage à René Char," stands as a testament to the artist's enduring creativity and his homage to the esteemed French poet René Char...
Category
1960s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Pablo Picasso 'Picador' (A. R. 289) Madoura Ceramic Bowl 1955
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Picador (A. R. 289)
Terre de faïence bowl, 1955, from the edition of 500, inscribed 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', partially glazed and painted.
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Pablo Picasso 'Le barbu' (A. R. 217) Bearded Man Pitcher
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Le barbu (A. R. 217)
Terre de faïence pitcher, painted in colors and partially glazed, 1953, from the edition of 500, inscribed 'Edition Picasso' and 'Mado...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Ceramic
Grande Maternité
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Alassa, CY
“Picasso wrote painting as other children wrote their a b c. He was born making drawings, not the drawings of a child but the drawings of a painter”. - Gertrude Stein
Created in 1963...
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1960s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
PABLO PICASSO "Deux femmes pres de la fenetre" (Two Women Near a Window)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
"Deux femmes pres de la fenetre" (Two Women Near a Window)
Linocut in colors on Arches
1959
pencil-signed and numbered 23/50; published by Galerie Louise Le...
Category
1950s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Linocut
Pablo Picasso - La Petite Corrida - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph
La Petite Corrida (The Small Bullfight)
1958
Edition of 2000, unsigned
Published in the journal XXe Siecle
Dimens...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso - Painter and His Model - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Painter and His Model - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
Edition of 200 (one of the 200 on Vélin de Rives)
Mourlot Press, 1964
Unsigned and unumbered ...
Category
1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, The Rehearsal, original lithograph, hand signed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
The Rehearsal, (La Répétition)
Original Lithograph, (litho crayon composition on transfer paper, transferred to stone)
Hand signed in ink in lower left corner
Numbered ...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Figur with Female Nude- lithograph by Pablo Picasso from Verve Series from 1954
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Figure with Female Nude" is an oroginal lithograph taken from Picasso's Verve 29/30 series in 1954. It is printed by Mourlot in Paris, not signed, but from the same lithographic stone. Dated. Limited edition 75. It comes beautifully framed with a high-end mat in excellent condition.
Picasso made the original ink and brush drawings of bullfighting in the Château of Vauvenargues, near Aix-en-Provence, where he and his partner Jacqueline Roque...
Category
1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flutiste
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flutiste
Etching, 1955
Signature stamp lower right (see photo)
Annotated in penci lower leftl: "epreuve d'artiste" (see photo)
Inventory number vers...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Etching
Les Portraits Imaginaires: One Plate
By Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1969, on wove paper, with the artist's printed signature as issued, numbered from the French edition of 250 and inscribed with an ‘F’(there was also an America...
Category
1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Vintage Art Poster Guggenheim New York Pablo Picasso Paris Exhibition
By Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for the Solomon R Guggenheim New York Collection art exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris held from April to June 1958 - Collection S Guggenhe...
Category
1950s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper
Les Portraits Imaginaires: One Plate
By Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1969, on wove paper, with the artist's printed signature as issued, inscribed ‘Hors Commerce’, aside from the French ‘F’ edition o...
Category
1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, "Portrait of Jacqueline, Right Profile, " original lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
"Portrait of Jacqueline, Right Profile"
Original Lithograph
The 3rd and final state, executed on zinc
Hand signed in pencil, numbered 21/50 from the edition of 50
Paper...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les Portraits Imaginaires: One Plate
By Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1969, on wove paper, with the artist's printed signature as issued, numbered from the French edition of 250 and inscribed with an ‘F’(there was also an America...
Category
1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, Femme au chapeau fleuri (A.R. 521)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Femme au chapeau fleuri (A.R. 521)
stamped and numbered 'Madoura Plein Feu / Empreinte Originale de Picasso / 97/100' (on the reverse)
terracotta plaque, pa...
Category
1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Terracotta
Fumeur à la Cigarette Blanche
By Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Etching and aquatint in colours, 1964, on Richard de Bas wove paper, signed in pencil and numbered 41/50 from the edition of 50, printed by Pennequin for Atelier Crommelynck, publish...
Category
1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Etching
The Embrace, 1963 (B.1116)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"The Embrace" is an aquatint on paper, image size 13.75 x 16.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left, and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black and...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Célestine, Young Girl and Client, 1968 (347 Series, B.1588)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Celestine, Young Girl and Client," 1968 is an aquatint from Picasso's 347 Series. The image size is 3.5 x 5 inches and the framed size is 18.25 x 19.5 inches. Signed 'Picasso' lower...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Le Singe
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this aquatint, grattoir and drypoint. Edition of 225. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Martin Fabiani, Paris. From "Histoire Naturelle."
Catalogu...
Category
1930s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint, Etching
Jacqueline au Bandeau
By Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Conceived in 1962, Cast in bronze in 1964
Bronze relief sculpture cast from a linocut
Stamped with the foundry mark ‘E. GodArd Fondr Paris’
Unnumbered edition of 2
Pablo Picasso’...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Bronze
"Elegy of Ihpetonga" original lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1954 at the Mourlot Freres atelier and published in New York by The Noonday Press in an edition of 64 for the "Elegy of Ihpetonga and Masks of...
Category
1950s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Combat pour Andromède entre Persée et Phinée - From "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Original etching from the portfolio "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"publised by Skira in 1930.
Catalogue Bloch Vol. I n. 108.
Includes passepartout: cm. 49x34.
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Etching
The White Eagle, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.340)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The White Eagle is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Bacchanale, back cover from Picasso Lithographe III
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Bacchanale (back cover)
Portfolio: Picasso Lithographe III
Medium: Transfer lithograph
Date: 1956
Edition: 3000
Frame Size: 20 ...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait Imaginaire 12.3.69
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Portrait Imaginaire by Pablo Picasso
Category
Late 20th Century Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le Singe - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1940s
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Not Signed. Not Numbered. Edition of 225 pieces. Etching - aquatint.
Belongs to the Suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon".
Catalogue Bloch n.339.
Passepartout included.
Category
1940s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Picasso Ceramic, Cavalier et cheval (A.R. 138)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Cavalier et cheval (A.R. 138)
stamped, marked and numbered 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / Madoura / 199/300' (underneath)
white ea...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Ceramic
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Poster Picasso Drawings Galerie Louise Leiris
By Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Original vintage art exhibition poster for Picasso Dessins 1966-1967 Drawings at the Galerie Louise Leiris 47 Rue de Monceau Paris VIII held fro...
Category
1960s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper
Pablo Picasso - The Ballet Dancer - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph
Title: The Ballet Dancer
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
1954
Reference: Bloch 767
Frontispiece for the book "Le Ballet" (Paris: Editions Hachet, 1954) by...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Painter and Model with Necklace (B.1389), 1966
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Painter and Model with Necklace" is an intaglio print on paper, comprised of etching, aquatint and drypoint technique. The image size is 11.5 x 14.75 inches and the framed size meas...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Arlequin
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Columbia, MO
This piece was among thousands of works inherited by Marina Picasso, the artist’s granddaughter, after his death. Marina has been instrumental in preserving Picasso’s legacy, placing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pichet espagnol (A.R. 244), Ceramic Stamped 'Edition Picasso/Madoura Plein Feu'
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Pichet espagnol (A.R. 244)
stamped, marked and numbered 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / 97/300 / Mad...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Ceramic
La Danse, frontispiece from Picasso Lithographe III
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: La Danse (frontispiece)
Portfolio: Picasso Lithographe III
Medium: Transfer lithograph printed in colors
Date: 1956
Edition: 3000
Frame Size: 19 1/2" x 1...
Category
1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le Peintre et Son Modèle - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1963
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 150 pieces.
Bloch 1139.
Excellent condition.
Category
1960s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) – hand-signed lithograph on Arches - 1963
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Varese, IT
color lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1963
Limited edition of 200 copies
signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner and numbered 84/200 in lower left corner
paper size: 88,9 x 62,9 cm
Framed size: 115 x 88 cm
very good conditions with strong deep colors
important wood frame included
both the background and the passe-partout were made ph neutral for proper preservation of the work over the years , to avoid oxidation.
Publications / Catalogue Raisonnée :
This print is fully documented and referenced in the official Catalogue Raisonnée
– Orozco no. 125 pag 93 (illustrated)
– Picasso & LA PRESSE...
Category
1960s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
1959 Original exhibition poster by Picasso - Les Ménines - Galerie Louise Leiris
By Pablo Picasso
Located in PARIS, FR
The poster for Picasso's exhibition "Les Ménines" at the Galerie Louise Leiris in 1959, printed by Mourlot, is a remarkable work that testifies to Picasso's artistic genius and his b...
Category
1950s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Femme Nue se Couronnant de Fleurs - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1930
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval with watermark "Vollard"
Hand Signed in pencil.
One of 260 proofs
Ref. Catalogue Bloch n.135; Baer 195 B.d.;
Belongs to the "Suite Vollard". Édition Ambroise V...
Category
1930s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
The Deer, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.336)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Deer is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Sculpteur, Modèle Accroupi et Tête Sculptée - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1933
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Sheet dimensions: 70x50 cm.
Hand Signed. Not Numbered. Edition of 250 pieces.
Belongs to the series "Suite Vollard", probably the most popular and appreciated graphic suite by Picass...
Category
1930s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Bacchanale with Acrobat, 1959 (B.933)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Bacchanale with Acrobat" is a linocut on paper with an image size of 21 x 25 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right, and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black and gold frame. One of about 20 signed artist proofs in the edition (there were also 50 Arabic).
Catalogues - Bloch vol. I, #933; Baer vol. V, #1264
Picasso’s linocut prints...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Linocut, Paper
The Bull, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.331)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Bull is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.15 x 8.5 inches...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Picasso's 1959 Original exhibition poster Maison de la pensée Francaise - Paris
By Pablo Picasso
Located in PARIS, FR
The exhibition poster for the original posters by the masters of the École de Paris at the Maison de la Pensée Française in 1959, created by lege...
Category
1950s Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
The Monkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.339)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Monkey is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 7.9 inche...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Man Unveiling a Woman, 1931 (Vollard Suite, B.138)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Man Unveiling a Woman" is a drypoint from Picasso's Vollard Suite, image size 14.5 x 11.5 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black an...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Homme et Femme - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1968
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated. With an handwritten dedication of the artist. Etching and Aquatint . Bloch n. 1385.
This beautiful etching is dedicated to Michel Lessens, the talented assist...
Category
1960s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Personnages Masqués et Femme Oiseau - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1934
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 99 prints. Plate 24 from "La Suite Vollard".
Catalogue Bloch n.227.
Passepartout included (cm.50x70).
Prov. Private Collection, France.
Category
1930s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
The Sparrow Hawk, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.342)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Sparrow Hawk is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Frog, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.357)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Frog is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.6 x 7.9 inches,...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Les Bleus de Barcelone - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1963
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 75 prints.
Ref. Bloch n.1130.
Category
1960s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
'Bright Owl' original Madoura ceramic rectangular platter, Edition Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Bright Owl' is an original Edition Picasso Madoura ceramic bowl from the height of Pablo Picasso's ceramic output. In the bowl's center is an owl surrounded by stars. Owls are a sub...
Category
1950s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Glaze
The Lizard, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.355)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Lizard is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inch...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Ox, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.330)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Ox is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.7 x 8.2 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
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20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
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Drypoint, Aquatint
'Around the Unknown Masterpiece' 1968 (347 Series, B.1824)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Around the Unknown Masterpiece" is an aquatint on paper from Picasso's 347 Series, with an image size of 9 x 12.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left, fra...
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20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
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Paper, Aquatint
La Comedie Humaine VIII
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wilton, CT
"La Comedie Humaine VIII" Lithograph in Color on Thick Wove Paper After The Original. The plates executed under the direct supervision of Pablo Picasso. First edition, 1954. Printed ...
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1950s Cubist Pablo Picasso Art
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Lithograph
Mon Dieu, quel homme, qu'il est petit… (347 Series, B.1629)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Mon Dieu, quel homme, qu'il est petit..." is an aquatint from Picasso's 347 Series with an image size of 2.3 x 3.3 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right, and ...
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20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Art
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Bacchanale, front cover from Picasso Lithographe III
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Bacchanale (front cover)
Portfolio: Picasso Lithographe III
Medium: Transfer lithograph
Date: 1956
Edition: 3000
Frame Size: 20 3/4" x 17 3/4"
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1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Art
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Lithograph
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