(after) Pablo Picasso
La Comedie Humaine
1954

Name: La Comedie Humaine
Brand: (after) Pablo Picasso
Price: 225 USD
Availability: InStock

$225

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An original heliogravure on smooth wove paper after a drawing by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) titled "La Comedie Humaine", 1954. Issued unsigned. Limited edition: approx. 2,000. Comes from the 1954 series "Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso", (Verve Vol. VIII, No. 29/20), comprised of 16 color lithographs and 164 photogravures in black ink. The sub-series of photogravures is known as "La Comedie Humaine". Picasso authorized and was commissioned to see this publication produced. Printed by Draeger Freres and published by E. Teriade, both in Paris, France. Matted with 100% cotton rag mats from Holland and foam board backing. All archival. Just the one heliogravure for sale in this listing. Matted size: 21" x 17.25". Image size: 13.75" x 10.25". Excellent condition. Heliogravure is a photographic printing process made up of two steps: A Photochemical process that creates the intaglio surface where the photographic image is etched into a copper plate. The copper plate is used to print the image onto etching paper using inks. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain. The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blasco, he began to draw at an early age. In 1895 the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso studied there at La Lonja, the academy of fine arts. His visit to Horta de Ebro from 1898 to 1899 and his association with the group at the café Els Quatre Gats in about 1899 were crucial to his early artistic development. Picasso’s first exhibition took place in Barcelona in 1900, and that fall he went to Paris for the first of several stays during the early years of the century. Picasso settled in Paris in April 1904, and his circle of friends soon included Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude and Leo Stein, as well as two dealers, Ambroise Vollard and Berthe Weill. His style developed from the Blue Period (1901–04) to the Rose Period (1905) to the pivotal work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), and the subsequent evolution of Cubism from an Analytic phase (ca. 1908–11) to its Synthetic phase (beginning in 1912–13). Picasso’s collaboration on ballet and theatrical productions began in 1916. Soon thereafter, his work was characterized by neoclassicism and a renewed interest in drawing and figural representation. In the 1920s the artist and his wife, Olga (whom he had married in 1918), continued to live in Paris, to travel frequently, and to spend their summers at the beach. From 1925 to the 1930s Picasso was involved to a certain degree with the Surrealists, and from the fall of 1931 he was especially interested in making sculpture. In 1932, with large exhibitions at the Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, and the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the publication of the first volume of Christian Zervos’s catalogue raisonné, Picasso’s fame increased markedly. By 1936 the Spanish Civil War had profoundly affected Picasso, the expression of which culminated in his painting Guernica (1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid). Picasso’s association with the Communist Party began in 1944. From the late 1940s he lived in the south of France. Among the enormous number of exhibitions that were held during the artist’s lifetime, those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1939 and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 1955 were most significant. In 1961 the artist married Jacqueline Roque, and they moved to Mougins. There Picasso continued his prolific work in painting, drawing, prints, ceramics, and sculpture until his death on April 8, 1973.

Details

Creator
(after) Pablo Picasso
Creation Year
1954
Dimensions
Height: 21 in. (53.34 cm)Width: 17.25 in. (43.82 cm)
Medium
Intaglio,Photogravure
Movement & Style
Cubist
Period
1950-1959
Condition
Gallery Location
Saint Augustine, FL
Reference Number
1stDibs: LU12121850993
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