Printer: Mourlot (1 of 2,650 Editions)

Dimensions: 64 x 48 cm

Condition: Very good condition

Frame: Charcoal 

Description: This original lithographic poster was produced in a limited edition of 2,650 for a 1964 exhibition at Galerie Louis Leiris, showcasing Picasso’s paintings created between 1962 and 1963. The poster was printed by Atelier Mourlot, a renowned fine art lithography studio that, during the early twentieth century, worked closely with many of the most influential artists of the period, inviting them to collaborate using traditional stone lithography techniques.

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.