Provenance:

Private collection, France

Collection Petrov, Kronberg (Germany)





Literature:

Catalogue Raisonée: Bloch 729

Catalogue Raisonée: Mourlot 231

PABLO PICASSO. Ausgewählte Graphik und Arbeiten auf Papier · Selected graphic and works on paper, Ausstellungskatalog · Exhibition catalogue, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt am Main 2020, S./p. 68





Introduction :

The years 1947 through the next decade were a moment of supreme achievement in Picasso’s graphic work in lithography. He had drawn his first lithographs in the 1920’s but in the late 1940’s he returned to work at the Mourlot studio. He was immediately deeply enthused by the extreme range of tones, textures and types of line that he learned at the studio, inventing for himself totally new variations in methods of working the stone. He seemed to approach each image with fresh eyes, rethinking all the accepted ideas and creating completely new visual effects. It was a period of the greatest genius in his art.