Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
Spanish, 1881-1973
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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Artist: Pablo Picasso
La Grenouille (The Frog), from Buffon's l'Histoire Naturelle
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Le Grenouille (The Frog), from Buffon's l'Histoire Naturelle
Medium: Original etching with sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint on Vidalon paper with Vollard...
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1940s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Diurnes: A General - Original Collotype and Stencil (Cramer #115)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Diurnes, A General, 1962
Original collotype and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Unsigned
Limited to 1000 copy
On paper 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11.2 in)
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Mid-20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Color
Femme nue couchée et joueur de flûte
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Femme nue couchée et joueur de flûte
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 223/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper.
With two watermarks - one of the pa...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
La Comédie Humaine
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
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1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Modèle Contemplant un Groupe Sculpté /// Picasso La Suite Vollard Marie-Thérèse
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Title: "Modèle Contemplant un Groupe Sculpté (Model Contemplating a Sculpted Group)" (Plate 66)
Portfolio: La Suite Vollard
*Signed by Pica...
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1930s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Intaglio, Laid Paper
Nature morte à la pipe
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Nature morte à la pipe
Lithograph, pochoir from 1962.
An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 264.
Dimensions of work: 36 x 48.5 cm
Publisher: Le...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Pablo Picasso - Painter and His Model - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph
Title: Painter and his Model
Edition of 180
From the illustrated book "Regards sur Paris" (Paris: André Sauret, 1962)
Pulled from the folio number...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Dans l'Atelier
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Dans l'Atelier
Etching and aquatint from 1965.
The edition of 33/50.
Dimensions of work: 39 x 51.5 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: Galerie Louise Leiris,...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
De mémoir d'homme, Planche V
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - De mémoir d'homme, Planche V
Lithograph from 1950.
An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 350.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 25 cm
Publisher: Édition...
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1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Composition (Cramer 36; Bloch 360; Horodisch A6), Non Vouloir, Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Zincograph on Vélin Bouffant paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Non Vouloir, 1942. Published by Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris; printed...
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1940s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$1,596 Sale Price
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Jacqueline
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jacqueline
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 27 x 37.9 cm
Dimensions in frame: 43.2 x 53.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Composition (Bloch 605-608; Mourlot 177; Reuße 519-522), Elegy of Ihpetonga
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on hand made Fabriano vélin paper mounted on museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Elegy of Ihpetonga and Ma...
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1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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The 156, Old Man, Woman, Athlete & Dwarf - Original Etching, Signed (Baer #1888)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
The 156, Old Man and Woman, with a Young Athlete and a Wwarf (plate 27), 1978
Original etching (Crommelynck workshop)
Signed with stamp
Justified HC B/C
On...
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1970s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Heads - Original Etching (Baer #147)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Heads , 1936
Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris)
Unsigned
On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in)
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1930s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Diurnes : Portrait with Tall Nose - Original Collotype and Stencil (Cramer #115)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Diurnes : Portrait with Tall Nose , 1962
Original collotype and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Unsigned
Limited to 1000 copy
On paper 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
Materials
Stencil
Pablo Picasso, rare vintage original poster
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Pablo Picasso, rare vintage original poster
Texte : Rare vintage original poster published by the famous Paris Gallery Claude Bernard for a Pablo Pic...
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1960s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Paper
De mémoir d'homme, Planche VIII
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - De mémoir d'homme, Planche VIII
Lithograph from 1950.
An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 350.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 25 cm
Publisher: Édit...
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1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Pablo Picasso - The Painter and His Model - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph - Pablo Picasso
Title: The Painter and His Model
This is unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
From the book/portfolio "Regards sur Paris"
Published by André Saure...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
At the Circus with Dancing Odalisque, 1968 (347 Series, B.1696)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"At the Circus with Dancing Odalisque" is an etching from Picasso's 347 Series, image size 6.5 x 8.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left and framed in a Sp...
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20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching
The Sparrow Hawk, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.342)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Sparrow Hawk 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 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...
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20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Aquatint
Pablo Picasso "Le Viol"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Hinsdale, IL
PABLO PICASSO
Le Viol
Etching on Montval laid paper, 1939
From Suite Vollard
Image size: 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches, full margins.
Edition of 260.
Signed in pencil, lower right. Picas...
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1930s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Bacchanale
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Bacchanale
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 89/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper.
With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of the publishe...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$1,719 Sale Price
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Picasso "Toros & Toreros" Photolithography
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
This framed Picasso print, is an offset lithographic book plate from a captivating book, entitled Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters), which ...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$560 Sale Price
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1969 lithograph poster Pablo Picasso titled "Hommage à René Char"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in PARIS, FR
The original lithograph by Pablo Picasso, titled "Hommage à René Char," stands as a testament to the artist's enduring creativity and his homage to the esteemed French poet René Char...
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1960s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Paper
Polyxène, Fille de Priam, est égorgée sur la Tombe d'Achille
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Original etching from the portfolio "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide" realized by Pablo Picasso in 1930 and published by Skira. Edition of 145 copies.
Very good conditions.
Re. Bloch p....
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1930s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Minotaure
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Minotaure
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 29/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper.
With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of the publisher...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The 156, The Father and Son - Original Etching, Signed (Baer #1909)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
The 156, The Father and Son (plate 48), 1978
Original etching (Crommelynck workshop)
Signed with stamp
Justified HC B/C
On vellum, 41.5 x 48 cm (c. 16.33 x...
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1970s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Archival Picasso Linocut Print, ‘B1296 Madoura’, 1961
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art...
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1960s Abstract Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Linocut
$28,000 Sale Price
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La Bouteille de Rhum, After Print
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Color Collotype on Arches paper, 1965. Signed by Picasso and numbered 207/250 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Guy Spitzer, Paris, with the blind stamp.
Overall framed dime...
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1960s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Color
A General
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - A General
Phototype and pochoir from 1962.
From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon.
Dimensions of sheet:...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Stencil
Woman with Monkey
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Woman with Monkey
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and se...
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1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Homme couché et femme assise
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Homme couché et femme assise
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 29/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper.
With two watermarks - one of the paper, seco...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$2,387 Sale Price
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La Répétition (B. 756; M. 252)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO
Spanish, 1881 - 1973
La Répétition (B. 756; M. 252)
signed in black ink "Picasso" (lower left)
numbered in pencil "11/50" (lower right)
lithograph on Arches
S. 19-2/3 x...
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1950s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Guitare
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Guitare
Lithograph, pochoir from 1962.
An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 261.
Dimensions of work: 48.5 x 36 cm
Publisher: Leda, Éditions d'...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Dompteur et son Cheval
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Dompteur et son Cheval
Lithograph from 1957.
The edition 211/275.
With Arches watermark.
Dimensions of work: 65 x 44 cm
Publisher: Fernand Mourlot Éd...
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1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
La Chevre-Feuille Suite, Suite of Surrealist Etchings by Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973) - La Chevre-Feuille Suite, Year: 1943, Medium: Suite of 18 Color Etchings, with cover sheet, Image Size: 10.5 x 8.25 inches, Size: 11 x 9 in. (2...
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1940s Surrealist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
La famille du saltimbanque (B. 753; M. 249)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO
Spanish, 1881 - 1973
La famille du saltimbanque (B. 753; M. 249)
signed in black ink "Picasso" (lower right)
numbered in pencil "5/50" (lower left)
lithograph on Arches...
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1950s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Élégie d'Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes, Planche III
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Élégie d'Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes, Planche III
Lithograph from 1949.
A copy from a limited edition of 16/64 (photocopy of the colophon is included).
O...
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1940s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Courtisane
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Barbizon, FR
Gravure originale tirée à 50 exemplaires, technique de l'eau-forte, numérotée et signée au crayon par l'artiste.
Encadrée avec un cadre en bois et un verre musée.
Numéro 35/50. Éd. d...
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20th Century Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXIV
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXIV
Lithograph from 1970.
An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in ...
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1970s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Urbi
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Urbi
Phototype and pochoir from 1962.
From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon.
Dimensions of sheet: 40 x...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Stencil
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, The Murder of Procris - Original Etching (Baer #156)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, The Murder of Procris, 1936
Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris)
Unsigned
On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in)
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1930s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Figurative Picasso Etching, 'Trois Femmes nues et une Coupe d’Anémones', 1933
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso's "Trois Femmes nues et une Coupe d'Anémones" (1933) is a powerful and evocative work that captures the artist's fascination with the female form and his ongoing explor...
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1930s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Etching
$28,000 Sale Price
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Personnages Masqués et Femme Oiseau - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1934
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint on Montval paper.
Hand Signed. Edition of 260 prints (not numbered and generally not signed).
Plate 24 from "La Suite Vollard".
Catalogue Bloch no. 227; Baer 44...
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1930s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint, Etching, Paper
Un général (Cramer 115), Diurnes
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et ...
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1960s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Stencil
$796 Sale Price
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Torero, from "Le Carmen des Carmen"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and development...
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1960s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
The 156, Dreamy Sailor with Two Women - Original Etching, Signed (Baer #1869)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
The 156, Dreamy Sailor with Two Women (plate 9), 1978
Original etching (Crommelynck workshop)
Signed with stamp
Justified HC B/C
On vellum, 25 x 33 cm (c. ...
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1970s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Square Head of a Man with Clenched Mouth (Plate IX), from Carmen
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Square Head of a Man with Clenched Mouth (Plate IX)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" x 18"...
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1940s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, The Girls of Minyas - Original Etching (Baer #150)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, The Girls of Minyas, 1936
Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris)
Unsigned
On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in)
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1930s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Yan visage, Pablo Picasso, Design, Madoura, Pitcher
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Geneva, CH
Yan visage
1963
Ed. 139/300 pcs
Red earthenware clay, engobe decoration, black
H. 27 cm
Numbered, engraved and stamped underside : Edition Picasso, 139/300,...
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20th Century Post-War Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware
Square Head of a Woman Half Smiling (Plate XII), from Carmen
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Square Head of a Woman Half Smiling (Plate XII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" ...
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1940s Cubist Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The White Eagle, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.340)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
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...
Category
20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Diurnes: Human Shadow on The Road - Original Collotype and Stencil (Cramer#115)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Diurnes, Human Shadow on The Road, 1962
Original collotype and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Unsigned
Limited to 1000 copy
On paper 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
Materials
Stencil
The Goldfinch, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.348 )
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Goldfinch 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 11.2 x 8.25 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...
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20th Century Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Round Head of a Man with Tiny Features (Plate XVII), from Carmen
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Round Head of a Man with Tiny Features (Plate XVII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" x 18"...
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1940s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Composition (Bloch 605-608; Mourlot 177; Reuße 519-522), Elegy of Ihpetonga
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on hand made Fabriano vélin paper mounted on museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Elegy of Ihpetonga and Ma...
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1950s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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1958 exhibition poster for "Mes Dessins d'Antibes" Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in PARIS, FR
The original exhibition poster for "Mes Dessins d'Antibes" by Pablo Picasso, showcased at the Galerie Lucie Weill and printed by Mourlot in 1958, offers a captivating glimpse into th...
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1950s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Paper
Exhibition poster by Picasso intended to promote the 1970 Salon de Mai
By Pablo Picasso
Located in PARIS, FR
This exhibition poster by Picasso was intended to promote the 1970 Salon de Mai, which was held at the cultural center in Saint Germain-en-Laye.
The Salon de Mai was an annual exhibition organized by a group of French artists who first met in 1943 in a café in Paris.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso...
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1970s Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Series 347:301 (Raphael et Fornarina VI: Enfin seuls)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this etching. Signed and numbered 35/50 in pencil by Picasso. Printed by Crommelynck, Mougins. Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. From "347 Gravures...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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Etching
"Le Peintre et son Modèle" - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph - Pablo Picasso
"Le Peintre et son Modèle" - Original Lithograph from "Picasso Lithographe IV"
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
1964...
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1960s Modern Pablo Picasso Prints and Multiples
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