Printer: Mourlot (1 of 3,000 Editions)

Dimensions: 69 x 47 cm

Condition: Very good 

Frame: Green 

Description: At the heart of this original exhibition poster is Picasso’s Serenade, painted in 1967 and chosen to represent the Salon de Mai at the Centre Culturel in Saint Germain en Laye in 1970. Founded in 1943 during the German Occupation, the Salon de Mai became a symbol of artistic resilience, giving modern artists a platform when creative freedom was under increasing pressure. Picasso remained one of its most committed supporters throughout his life, helping cement its reputation as one of France’s leading exhibitions of modern art.

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.