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Artist: Pablo Picasso (b. 1881-d. 1973)
Title: Block – Nr 226
Medium: Lithograph on Paper
Signature: Plate Signed by the Artist
Edition: 300
Edition Year: 1990 – 1992
Image Size: Approximately 9 ¼ inches x 11 ½ inches
Paper Size: Approximately 12 ¾ inches x 17 ¾ inches
Framed: Unframed
Details: Pablo Picasso created the Suite Vollard between 1930 and 1939 in honor of his friend and art dealer, Ambroise Vollard. The suite is comprised of 100 etchings, illustrating Picasso’s most famous themes.
In 1990, the Picasso family authorized an unprecedented print recreation, faithfully rendered, of these exceptional artworks. This authorized recreation, produced in a limited edition of 300, was published by the prestigious German Museum, Stadtichen Mulheim an der Ruhr. The paper used for this edition is the same rare, high quality paper used by Picasso to print the Suite Vollard during the 1930’s.
Biography: Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973). Spanish painter, born in Malaga. He studied principally in Barcelona where he lived from 1895 to 1904. He showed prodigious artistic ability from his youth. His paintings of 1901-4 (his "blue period") are mainly of poor and suffering people. Settling in Paris in 1904, his home until 1945, he began to meet artists and writers and his early patrons, the Steins, Uhde and Shchukin.
The pessimism of his earlier work gave way to the so called "rose period’, lighter in mood and palette. He exhibited in the 1st Surrealist exhibition (Paris, 1925) and contributed etchings and writings to official Surrealist literature. Picasso’s most original sculpture includes Cubist bronzes. Leaving Paris in 1946 he subsequently lived in Antibes, Vallauris (1948-58), and Vauvenargues. His post-war work includes family portraits and several variations on works by other artists as well as a prodigious volume to graphic work and ceramics. Prolifically productive to the end of his life, he was one of the most versatile and influential artists of the century.
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Auction Estimate: $2,200.00/$2,400.00