Pablo Picasso
Têtes et Figures Emmêlées (Tangled Heads and Figures)
1934

Name: Têtes et Figures Emmêlées (Tangled Heads and Figures)
Brand: Pablo Picasso
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An original signed etching on handmade Montval laid paper by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) titled "Têtes et Figures Emmêlées (Tangled Heads and Figures)", 1934. Hand pencil signed by Picasso lower right. Limited edition: unnumbered edition of 260. Comes from Picasso's most famous portfolio, "La Suite Vollard" (Plate 18), 1930-1937. Printed by Roger Lacourière and published by Ambroise Vollard in Paris, France, 1939. Vollard watermark lower center margin. Henri Petiet number '372' pencil inscribed lower left. Reference: Geiser-Baer 410 B.d.; Bloch 211; Petiet 372; SV18. Provenance: private collection - Park Avenue, New York, NY. Beautifully framed with gold leafed wood moulding and silk fabric mats. Framed size: 19" x 15.5". Sheet size: 17.5" x 13.38". Image size: 11" x 7.75". Pale mat stain in margins, otherwise a fine impression in excellent condition. Very rare. During this period, Picasso was influenced by other Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali and Man Ray, and possibly experimented in Surrealism with this etching. There are several hidden faces depicted within this etching. How many faces can you find? It is dated in the plate January 30th, 1934. In January of 1934, Picasso stayed at his Paris studio, entering a very productive period, continuing to be inspired by Marie-Thérèse. He does not introduce her to friends or publicly acknowledge her as his mistress. In 1930, Picasso was commissioned to produce 100 etchings in the neoclassical style for "La Suite Vollard" by the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard in exchange for paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne. In reference to Baer, the complete tirage comprises of 260 on Montval laid paper, 50 on Montval laid paper with wider margins, plus 3 examples on parchment. Picasso worked extensively on the set in the spring of 1933, and completed the suite in 1937. It took a further two years for the printmaker Roger Lacourière to finish printing the full sets. Tragically, Ambroise Vollard died in a car crash on July 22nd, 1939 leaving the project temporarily suspended, until a greater part of the edition was purchased by the print dealer Henri Marie Petiet. After World War II, Petiet engaged Picasso to sign a certain number of sets, and this continued up until 1969 but ceased with the publication of the "347 Series". Due to all these factors, several of the prints from the edition remain unsigned. 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

Artist
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish)
Creation Year
1934
Dimensions
Height: 19 in. (48.26 cm)Width: 15.5 in. (39.37 cm)
Medium
Laid Paper,Etching
Movement & Style
Cubist
Period
1930-1939
Condition
Gallery Location
Saint Augustine, FL
Reference Number
1stDibs: LU12125603442
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About Pablo Picasso (Artist)

One of the most prolific and revolutionary artists the world has ever seen, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) 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 his 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.

He 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.