The World of Picasso: Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
The World of Picasso: Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
PABLO PICASSO | PORTRAIT DE JACQUELINE AU FAUTEUIL (BA. 1054; PP. L-033)
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PABLO PICASSO
1881 - 1973
PORTRAIT DE JACQUELINE AU FAUTEUIL (BA. 1054; PP. L-033)
The very rare linoleum cut printed in red and yellow, 1958, Baer's state B. a., one of only a few impressions (Baer records only two, this impression presumably cited by Baer as being in a private collection), there was no published edition of this subject, with the printer Arnèra’s inkstamp 'Imprimerie Arnèra Archives / Non Signé' verso, on wove paper, framed
image: 640 by 530mm 25¼ by 20⅞in
sheet: 768 by 572mm 30¼ by 22½in
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When Picasso moved to the south of France in the late 1950s, the distance from Mourlot’s lithographic press in Paris was the primary motivation for him to explore the linoleum cut as a creative outlet. Therefore, it is fitting that Jacqueline, whom he met at the Madoura Pottery in 1952, be the subject of this early work in the medium. Frustrated by the extreme effort it took to create this image from several linoleum blocks, Picasso eventually developed the “reduction” method that allowed him to create a multi-color linocut using just one block.