Printer: Mourlot (1 of 3,000 Editions)

Dimensions: 79 x 53 cm

Condition: Good condition

Frame: Oak

Description: Created for Hommage à René Char at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Céret, this exhibition poster celebrates the friendship between Pablo Picasso and René Char, one of France’s greatest twentieth-century poets, a frequent collaborator on artists’ books and a decorated hero of the French Resistance.

Céret has a remarkable place in the history of modern art. Picasso worked there as early as 1911 alongside Georges Braque and Juan Gris, helping establish the small Catalan town as one of the earliest centres of Cubism. It was therefore a fitting place to honour both artist and poet.

Featuring one of Picasso’s vibrant late paintings from 1964, the poster is a reminder that some of the most rewarding stories in modern art are not just about individual artists, but about the friendships that inspired them.

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.