Printer: Cercle d'Art (1 of 666 Editions)

Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm

Condition: Very good

Available: In a bespoke frame

Description: Lithograph in colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Published in 1970, Le Goût du Bonheur was a portfolio of prints produced using an inventive technique that incorporated the very materials Picasso himself favoured, rather than traditional printing inks. Grease crayon, lithographic tusche, pencil and charcoal were layered together to achieve a richly textured, highly expressive surface.

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.