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Creator: Pablo Picasso
Picasso Ceramic Bowl
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Picador, Earthenware bowl white, decoration with slips and paraffin and white enamel,
“Edition Picasso Madoura” inscription on the reverse, Edition of 500
...
Category
1950s Vintage California
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Pablo Picasso, "Portrait of Jacqueline, Right Profile, " original lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
"Portrait of Jacqueline, Right Profile"
Original Lithograph
The 3rd and final state, executed on zinc
Hand signed in pencil, numbered 21/50 from the edition of 50
Paper...
Category
1950s Modern California
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, "L'Atelier" (The Studio), 1948, lithograph, hand signed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
L'Atelier (The Studio), 1948
Lithograph
Hand signed by artist and numbered 45/50 from an edition of 50.
Measures: 25.5 x 19.5 inches
In the artist's catalogue "Picasso Lithographe II...
Category
1940s Abstract California
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, "The Little Artist", 1956, lithograph in 5 colors, hand signed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
Le Petit Dessinateur (The Little Artist), 1956
Lithograph in five colors
Hand signed in pencil and numbered 6/50 from an edition of 50
Vallauris, May 18th, 1956
Referen...
Category
1950s Modern California
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso Ceramic Pitcher
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ceramic Picasso Pitcher
Tetes -1956
5” diameter x 6” tall
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Earthenware pitcher white, oxidized paraffin decoration, black and white enamel,
“Edition Picasso...
Category
1950s Vintage California
Materials
Ceramic
Mid century framed Picasso print “Homage to the Sun”, 20th century
By Pablo Picasso
Located in View Park, CA
A mid century framed lithograph print of Pablo Picasso’s “Homage to the Sun”, 20th century. With midnight blue and canary yellow matting and behind glass in a deep forest green lacqu...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern California
Materials
Glass, Wood, Lacquer, Paper
Pablo Picasso Limited Ed. Lithograph From Portfolio Les Dessins D'Antibes, 1958
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful monochrome lithograph from famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) from his portfolio collection "Les (Mes) Dessins D'Antibes" done in 1958 consisting of 16 loose ...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage California
Materials
Paper
Midcentury "Exposition Vallauris" Poster by Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in San Diego, CA
Highly collectible midcentury "Exposition Vallauris" poster by Pablo Picasso, circa 1950s. The piece is from the French Posters collection an...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern California
Materials
Paper
Vintage After Pablo Picasso Cubist Figural Scarf 1980s
By Pablo Picasso
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage after Pablo Picasso Abstract Figural Scarf 1980s.
Dimensions: 40” x 40”.
This vintage Picasso silk scarf features one of his paintings which...
Category
Late 20th Century French California
Picasso Histoire de Sabartes et desa Voisine: Les Banderilles
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
From the unpublished series, “Histoire de Sabartés et de sa voisine: Les Banderilles" (History of Sabartés and his Neighbor: Les Banderilles). Picasso expert Brigitte Baer records 16...
Category
1950s Cubist California
Materials
Aquatint
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 California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Pablo Picasso, The Rehearsal, original lithograph, hand signed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
The Rehearsal, (La Répétition)
Original Lithograph, (litho crayon composition on transfer paper, transferred to stone)
Hand signed in ink in lower left corner
Numbered ...
Category
1950s Modern California
Materials
Lithograph
PABLO PICASSO "Deux femmes pres de la fenetre" (Two Women Near a Window)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
"Deux femmes pres de la fenetre" (Two Women Near a Window)
Linocut in colors on Arches
1959
pencil-signed and numbered 23/50; published by Galerie Louise Le...
Category
1950s California
Materials
Linocut
Pablo Picasso Signed Limited Madoura Pottery Chouetton Owl Vase A.R. 135, 1952
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, original Mid-Century Madoura pottery vase by renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso titled "Chouetton (Young Wood Owl)". The work, which features two distinct owl faces,...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage California
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Pottery
The Frog, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.357)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Frog 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 10.6 x 7.9 inches,...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Embrace, 1963 (B.1116)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"The Embrace" is an aquatint on paper, image size 13.75 x 16.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left, and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black and...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
The Monkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.339)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Monkey 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 7.9 inche...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Pablo Picasso, Table des Eaux-Fortes (from Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'Oeuvre)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Table des Eaux-Fortes (from Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu)
Year: 1931
Medium: Original etching
Edition: ha...
Category
1930s Surrealist California
Materials
Etching
The Lobster, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.352)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Lobster 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 10.6 x 7.9 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 California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
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...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Spider, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.353)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Spider 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...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
PABLO PICASSO "Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 t...
Category
Mid-20th Century California
Materials
Paper, Linocut
The Lizard, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.355)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Lizard 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 inch...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
The Vulture. 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.341)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Vulture 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 10.6 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...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
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...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Paper, Etching
Pablo Picasso, "Three Colour Profile", original lithograph, hand signed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
"Three Colour Profile"
1956
Image Size: 16.5 x 20 inches
Three colour litho on transfer
From the edition of 50 numbered and signed proofs
Picasso Lithographs- Fernand M...
Category
1950s Modern California
Materials
Lithograph
The Bull, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.331)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Bull 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 10.15 x 8.5 inches...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
Mon Dieu, quel homme, qu'il est petit… (347 Series, B.1629)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Mon Dieu, quel homme, qu'il est petit..." is an aquatint from Picasso's 347 Series with an image size of 2.3 x 3.3 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right, and ...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
The Rooster, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.344)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Rooster 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 10.6 x 8.15 inc...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
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...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Turkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.346)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Turkey 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 10.8 x 7.9 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 California
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
The Deer, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.336)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Deer 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 California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Couple in the Fields, with a Cherub Crowned with Flowers (347 Series, B.1697)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Couple in the Fields, with a Cherub Crowned with Flowers" is an etching from Picasso's 347 Series, with an image size of 12.75 x 12.25 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and frame...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Paper, Etching
'Around the Unknown Masterpiece' 1968 (347 Series, B.1824)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Around the Unknown Masterpiece" is an aquatint on paper from Picasso's 347 Series, with an image size of 9 x 12.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left, fra...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
The Donkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.329)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Donkey 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,...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
The Pigeon, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.347)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Pigeon 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 10.75x 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...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Wasp, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.351)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Wasp 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 10.6 x 8 inches, u...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
The Mother Hen, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.345)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Mother Hen 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 10.6 x 8 inc...
Category
20th Century Modern California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Visage de face (Full-face Face), A.R. 508
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1963, ceramic Visage de face (Full-face Face) A.R. 508 is a round plate of red earthenware clay from the edition of 100. This work is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' ...
Category
1960s Modern California
Materials
Clay, Earthenware, Ceramic
Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 21. A sweeping light blue back and a peach colored belly make up the body of the fish. Light blue fins crown the back of the fish and a delicate tail parts off the back. Dashes of yellow encircle the rim of the creamy colored bowl, brightening the entire work and creating a dreamy abstracted pattern around the fish. The colors emit a tropical sensation, reminding the viewer of the warmth of the sun and the salty taste of the ocean air.
Picasso, who often riffs on ancient Greek...
Category
1940s Modern California
Materials
Clay, Glaze, Earthenware
Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 3. A sweeping blue back and a orange belly make up the...
Category
1940s Modern California
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Glaze
Quatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Picasso Quatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes), 1947 is a wondrous mixture of color and charm. In the center of the dish are three fish, e...
Category
1940s Modern California
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Earthenware, Glaze
Chouette (Wood-Owl)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical work full of glorious artistry, Pablo Picasso Chouette (Wood-Owl), 1948 A.R. 48 stands out as a magnificent ceramic. Verdant, green tendri...
Category
1940s Modern California
Materials
Clay, Glaze, Earthenware
Service Poisson Plate N (“Fish” Service Plate)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate N (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 17. A sweeping orange back and a red belly make up the...
Category
1940s Modern California
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze, Earthenware, Clay
Figure de proue
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1952, this partially engraved white earthenware ceramic vessel with colored engobe and glaze is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EDITION PICASSO' pottery stamps o...
Category
1950s Modern California
Materials
Earthenware, Clay, Glaze
Pablo Picasso "Dancing Woman" Lithograph, 1960
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Substantial lithograph by Pablo Picasso "Dancing Woman" made in 1960 depicting an abstract representation of a couple dancing along with other distorted figures all around.
Signed '...
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage California
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Femme assise en pyjama de plage
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Femme assise en pyjama de plage" is a linocut by Pablo Picasso. It is edition 47/100. The work is signed in the lower right, "Picasso". The framed size is 23 1/4 x 18 5/8 x 1 1/2 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist California
Materials
Linocut
Le Peintre à la Palette (Painter with Palette)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Le Peintre à la Palette (Painter with Palette), 1963 in an intricate and detailed work that showcases the dedication the artist has to his craft and his chosen mediums....
Category
1960s Modern California
Materials
Linocut
Jacqueline au Bandeau de Face (Grande Tête de Femme)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Jacqueline au Bandeau de Face (Grande Tête de Femme), 1962 is a bright and unique depiction of Pablo Picasso’s last and fin...
Category
1960s Modern California
Materials
Linocut
Rare Linocut Poster "Vallavris Exhibition 1954" by Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in San Diego, CA
Highly collectible and rare linocut poster "Vallavris Exhibition 1954" by Pablo Picasso, circa 1954.. The print is in good vintage and measures 24" x 30". It is presented in a simple black wood frame and is signed in the print. Super cool and hard to find Picasso poster! #2912
Starting in the 1950s, Picasso worked with the linocut printer Hidalgo Arnéra to produce posters for ceramic exhibitions and bullfights. The printer described their working method as such: “Picasso worked at night; in the morning, Marcel the chauffeur brought what he had completed to the print shop with notes added by Jacqueline Roque. I pulled the proofs and returned them to [his home] La Californie at exactly 1:30. This regular rhythm of working continued for eight years, every day, except Saturday and Sunday.” This idiosyncratic procedure speaks to the collaborative effort of these printmaking ventures, which included his partner, his printer, and his chauffeur
Title: Vallauris Exhibition 1954
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Printer: Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra
Publisher: Published by Hidalgo Arnéra
Date: 1954
Medium: Linoleum cut
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in 1881, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso followed in his father’s footsteps as an academically trained painter and studied art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in his native Spain. Picasso traveled for the first time to Paris at age 19, establishing a studio there in 1904. He soon began a relationship with Fernande Olivier...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern California
Materials
Paper, Wood
Pablo Picasso, "Tête de Femme", original linoleum cut
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original linoleum cut in color by Pablo Picasso, 1962. It is hand signed and numbered 40/50 from the edition of 50; there were also 35 ar...
Category
1960s Modern California
Materials
Linocut
PABLO PICASSO "Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au Pigeon..."
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
"Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au Pigeon dans une Nuit étoilée"
1934
Numbered 1/3 (in Red on lower left) and signed in red Picasso (on lower right)
Aquatint, scraper, drypoint and burin in parchment paper.
13 1/8 x 17 5/16 inches
Image Size 9.1/2"H x 13 3/16"W
Sheet Size : 16 7/16"H x 21" W
Framed Size: 27.5"H x 31.25"W x 1.5"D
From the Suite Vollard...
Category
1930s California
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint, Parchment Paper
Ceramic Plate Picasso Madoura
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1881 - 1973
What can I say about Picasso that hasn't already been written...?
Only that I'm an admirer of an artist with so much passion and dedication.
From the estate of the late Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn, daughter of the late art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn of the 'Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden'.
Selling "as is".
Some chips and a crack.
It can be restored or left as is for historical aesthetics or integrity like an old Etruscan piece of pottery.
Ceramic with white glaze on the bottom with hallmarks, bisque glaze on top with painterly brush...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern California
Materials
Ceramic
Pablo Picasso "Grand Tête" (Portrait de Jacqueline aux Cheveux lisses)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Grand Tête (Portrait de Jacqueline aux Cheveux lisses)
linocut in colors, on Arches paper, 1962,
signed in pencil, numbered 12/50,
with full margins, pale ...
Category
20th Century Cubist California
Materials
Linocut
Hibou aux ailes déployées (Owl with spread wings), 1957
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1975, this madoura turned round dish of red earthenware clay, engobe decoration in black and knife engraving is from the edition of 200 and stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EDITION PICASSO' pottery stamps on the back.
Pablo Picasso ceramic Hibou aux ailes déployées (Owl with spread wings), 1957 A.R. 397 features a smiling owl with wings opening above its head. The owl sits on a thin branch that spans the lower length of the plate, extending the scene beyond the bounds of the ceramic. Beautiful, bushy feathers fan out. Picasso uses...
Category
1950s Modern California
Materials
Ceramic
Peintre et Femme Cuillant des Fleurs (Painter and Woman Picking Flowers), 1970
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Peintre et Femme Cuillant des Fleurs (Painter and Woman Picking Flowers), 1970 showcases a beautifully crisp work of art that Picasso imaginatively creates. Simple and ...
Category
1970s Modern California
Materials
Etching
Pablo Picasso Signed Limited Edition Etching Jeux de Gladiateurs Series 347:168
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Studio City, CA
An engaging work titled "Jeux de Gladiateurs" by famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
The etching was created in 1968. It is hand signed in pencil by Picasso and numbered 33/50, lo...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage California
Materials
Paper
Trois Personnages sur Tremplin (Three Figures on a Trampoline), A.R. 375
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1956, this Madoura small convex wall plaque of white earthenware clay with engraving accentuated with oxidized paraffin in a glaze bath (ivory, brown) is from the edition ...
Category
1950s Modern California
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Earthenware, Glaze
Homme barbu couronné feuilles de vigne
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1962, this linocut on Arches wove paper is hand-signed by Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) in pencil in the lower right margin and is numbered from the edition of 50 in the lower left margin.
Catalogue Raisonné:
Pablo Picasso Homme barbu couronné feuilles de vigne...
Category
1960s Modern California
Materials
Lithograph
Picador, 1953 A.R. 200
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Capturing the moment in which the picador stabs the charging bull with his lance, Picasso creates an image of action and suspense in Pablo Picasso ceramic Picador...
Category
1950s Modern California
Materials
Earthenware
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