Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso(1881–1973) - Colombe volant - Coloured lithograph on Arches paper

1952

Color lithograph on Arches paper , edited in 1968 Limited edition of 300 copies , numbered 63/300 in lower left Hand signed by Pablo Picasso in pencil in the lower right margin paper...

Etching on paper, edited in 1969 Limited edition of 50 copies , numbered 19/50 in lower left Signed on the plate by the artist paper size: 38 x 48 cm Framed size: 52.5 x 63.5 cm Very...

Grosse Prostituée, Sorcière à la Chouette et Voyageur en Sabots ( Ref: Bloch 1760) etching on wove paper, Edited in 1968 Limited edition of 50 copies Current copy numbered: 37/50 on...

Color lithograph on Arches paper, Edited in 1961 Limited edition of 50 copies Current copy numbered: 30/50 on the lower left corner signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner p...

In this print, Pablo Picasso uses a series of curving lines and soft angles to portray a bird in flight. Relying on the use of perspective, the artist creates a unique view of the animal as it soars through the air, surrounded by organic decoration. A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso drawing "Etudes de Mains et Colombe...

An original hand-signed limited edition lithograph by famed sculptor Emile Gilioli. Edition of only 75. Émile Gilioli (b. Paris, 10 June 1911, d. Paris,...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Deux Pigeons". The original painting was completed in 1960. In the 1970's after Picasso's de...

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...