Pablo Picasso Artwork Details

 

 

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Published by: Galerie Madoura, 81 Rue d’Antibes, Cannes, August 1962. Printed by: Arnera, Vallauris. Size: 270 x 215 mms Condition: In excellent condition. Edition: From a large edition. Reference : George Bloch: Catalogue de l’oeuvre grave et lithographie 1904 - 1967 - Volume 1 - number 1061 Patrick Cramer : ”Pablo Picasso - The Illustrated Books” number 118 - page 290 Note: This item is the front cover of the book “Les Dejeuners de Picasso ” by Douglas Cooper - the renowned art critic. Cooper’s work describes the illustrious series of drawings and paintings made by Picasso as a hommage to Edouard Manet and his famous painting “Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe”. This work, now in the Louvre, showed a naked woman having a picnic with men on the grass. Picasso was fascinated by this subject and made a whole series of paintings, prints and drawings relating to it. In more recent times there was a major exhibition on the subject at the Musee D’Orsay in Paris and the exhibition at the National Gallery “Picasso challenging the past” dealt at great length with the subject also. In his art Picasso never depicts the precise scene; rather he makes a series of dramatic transformations of the work which Cooper divides into four phases. The deluxe edition of this book contained an original lithograph (Bloch 1024). Cramer does not mention the original Drypoint in his description of this work save only to mention a reference to it (cf.Bloch 1061)