Printer: Mourlot (1 of 2,000 Editions)

Dimensions: 76 x 50 cm

Condition: Very good 

Frame: Unframed

Description: This poster was produced for an exhibition at the Galerie Louise Leiris in 1971, and is based on a coloured chalk drawing by Picasso from 1970, Harlequin (Tête d’arlequin).

Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, his extraordinary artistic genius made him the ‘rock star’ of the Modern Art world pioneering cubism, surrealism, expressionism and collage. Throughout his long career, he produced more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theatre sets, and costumes. From the mid-1940s, he also worked with the Mourlot studios in Paris and created over 400 lithographs and exhibition posters. As well as Fernand Mourlot, Henri Deschamps was Picasso's favourite and most trusted master printer at the studio and they collaborated together from 1945 right up until Picasso’s death in 1973.