Printer: Mourlot (1 of 1,000 Editions)

Dimensions: 61 x 40 cm

Condition: Very good 

Available: In a charcoal frame £900 + P&P 

Description: This original lithograph was created by Picasso with Mourlot in 1953. ‘The design is highly complex and incudes techniques found in various Picasso periods. The face is divided into three distinct planes. The eye, all in black, is set in the centre of the flat blue area and is matched in design by the black line dividing the face from the rest of the blue area. The eye on the right is so constructed as to carry the white, and if you place your hand to the left of the nose, just covering the left eye, you will notice the profile effect that the face takes on. Remove your hand and the full face emerges again. Thus, you have the combination of full face and profile that dominated Picasso’s work in the forties.’ [JKF The Posters of Picasso p.29]

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.