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Pablo PicassoLes bleus de Barcelone1963
1963
About the Item
Technique: Aquatint and etching
Paper: Gourbeyre wove paper with watermark “Au Vent d’Arles”
Edition: 73/75
Signed: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil
Printer: Atelier Crommelynck, Paris
Sheet: 41.8 × 54 cm (16.5 × 21.3 in)
Frame (approx.): 66 × 78 cm (26 × 30.7 in)
Catalogue Reference: Bloch 1130; Baer 1127
Provenance: Copy of catalogue page (Bloch) included with documentation
Condition: Very good.
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With lyrical ambiguity and masterful restraint, Picasso’s Le Peintre et son Modèle draws the viewer into one of the artist’s most intimate obsessions: the act of creation itself. A seated muse, an artist mid-stroke, and a looming male figure echo Picasso’s lifelong dialogue between model, creator, and observer. Rendered in velvety aquatint and etching, this print captures a sensual, almost theatrical stillness — a moment suspended between gaze and gesture.
Printed by the renowned Crommelynck studio in Paris, this impression bears the mark of excellence associated with Picasso’s late-period graphic works. The use of Gourbeyre wove paper — with its delicate “Au Vent d’Arles” watermark — lends the piece both texture and rarity, a physical echo of the Mediterranean light that so deeply influenced Picasso’s practice.
Only 75 impressions were produced, and this is number 73, signed boldly in pencil by the artist. Picasso’s signature alone — fluid, deliberate — anchors the work in the tangible reality of his hand. With market interest in Picasso's etchings steadily rising, this work presents not just an acquisition, but a dialogue with history, captured in ink.
- Creator:Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1963
- Dimensions:Height: 16.46 in (41.8 cm)Width: 21.26 in (54 cm)
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- Condition:Slight overall paper darkening consistent with age.
- Gallery Location:OPOLE, PL
- Reference Number:Seller: Deluxe1stDibs: LU2814215566392
Pablo Picasso
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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