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Pablo PicassoPABLO PICASSO "Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune"1958
1958
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
"Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune"
linocut in colours, 1958, on Arches wove paper, signed in blue crayon, numbered 31/50, a very good impression of this highly important print, the colours fresh and bright, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Image 650 x 533 mm.
Sheet 765 x 570 mm.
Framed 48.5 Inches x 41 Inches x 2.5 inches
PROVENANCE
With Lumley Cazalet Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 2000.
Private Collection
LITERATURE
Bloch 859; Baer 1053
In the 1950s, Picasso moved to the Côte d’Azur. Etching and lithography were harder to practise there, as both involved specialist equipment that wasn’t readily available.
Before long, however, the artist met a local printer called Hidalgo Arnéra, who specialised in posters — and who introduced him to the linocut process.
This usually entailed cutting separate pieces of linoleum for each colour one wanted to use. Picasso, however, found a way around this by inventing what became known as the ‘reduction method’, involving the use of just a single piece of linoleum.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Buste de femme d’après Cranach le Jeune, 1958. Linocut in colours on Arches wove paper, signed in blue crayon, numbered 3150. Image 650 x 533 mm; sheet 765 x 570 mm. Sold for £567,000 on 16 March 2023 at Christie’s Online
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Buste de femme d’après Cranach le Jeune, 1958. Linocut in colours on Arches wove paper, signed in blue crayon, numbered 31/50. Image 650 x 533 mm; sheet 765 x 570 mm. Sold for £567,000 on 16 March 2023 at Christie’s Online
Picasso and Arnéra collaborated for the best part of a decade, always with the same routine: the artist creating late into the night; having his chauffeur drive his work to Arnéra’s workshop first thing the next morning; Arnéra printing the linocut; and then returning it to Picasso at 1.30pm for assessment.
The printmaker said that Picasso ‘had a sort of aggressive delight in encountering an obstacle and surmounting it. Difficulty gave him a jumping-off point from which to conquer fresh fields.’ The linocuts are characterised by their wonderfully rich colours and bold patterning.
- Creator:Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1958
- Dimensions:Height: 48.5 in (123.19 cm)Diameter: 41 in (104.14 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1436212414172
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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