Hi,

I would like to offer the mid century offset lithograph print after Pablo Picasso from the series of his linocuts; the edition from 1988. The lithograph is realeased on heavy weight paper from "those years" by Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York. Another side is blank. Never framed or matted.
The item will be send in the high quality protective sleeve.

The photos at the listing show the selling piece and reflects its state of preservation. I send the lithograph flatways, protected by thick carton. The piece comes from my personal collection and it's not the present-day reproduction.

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The piece comes from my personal collection and it's not the present-day reproduction.

- THE PRINT SELLING HERE COMES WITH THE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY -

Details:

• Author: after Pablo Picasso

• Title: "Picador and Bull"

• Year: 1988

• Editor: Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York

• Type: offset lithograph

• State: mint

• Sheet size: 36 cm x 31.5 cm (14 3/4 x 12,5 inch)

• Copyright: S.P.A.D.E.M.,Paris

About Picasso linocuts:

After creating his first linocut in 1939, Picasso did not pick up the technique again until 1951. At this time he was spending much of his time in Vallauris (the south of France). Occasionally, he would donate some of his time and skills to create a poster for an event in the town, such as a bullfight or a ceramics fair. A local printer, Arnéra, suggested that Picasso try linoleum as a cheap printmaking technique. After this, and for the next 10 years, Picasso immersed himself in linocuts. Picasso developed a new method for creating prints which dispensed with the need to cut a separate block for each colour, instead progressively cutting and printing from a single block. The technique saved huge amounts of time, but also presented tremendous challenges. It required the artist to be able to visualise the completed image at an early stage, and made it impossible to reverse any mistakes made during the cutting process. Picasso created his linocuts using progressive proofs that made up the final print: he progressively cut and printed from a single block to gradually build an image of increasing complexity (e.g. linocut "Still Life under the Lamp, a still life of apples on a table next to a brightly lit goblet"); creating another work "Jacqueline Reading, a portrait of Picasso’s second wife Jacqueline Roque" the artist used different technique from the still life, as he used two blocks to create the finished piece – one defining the sitter’s head and bust tonally, the other cut to leave just her outline – with the two prints superimposed to create the final work. Picasso linocuts still remain relatively rare in his oeuvre, encompassing only about 150 out of more than 2,000 prints, and are highly valued by collectors.

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