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PABLO PICASSO <BR>Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish) <BR><BR>Grand Profil - Portrait de Françoise - 1947 <BR>Original Hand Signed and Numbered Color Lithograph<BR><BR>Title : Grand Profil - Portrait de Françoise.<BR><BR>Technique : Original Lithograph on Arches Vellum paper. <BR><BR>Paper size: 65 X 50 cm / 28.6 X 19.7 inch.<BR><BR>Additional Information : This Lithograph is Hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right margins.<BR>It is also hand numbered in pencil at the lower right margins "17/50".<BR>This original lithograph was drawn with pen, rubbed crayon and wash in black ink in 1947. <BR>It was printed in a small limited edition of only 50 hand signed and numbered impressions in the Mourlot studio in Paris on the second of April 1947.<BR>The edition was published in the same year. <BR>The stone of the lithograph was erased after the edition of 50 was printed.<BR><BR>It was in 1946 and 1947 that Picasso started to make the series of studies of Francoise which are amongst his most beautiful and inventive works in lithography. His relationship with Francoise at this period was one of calm love and family life, and this relaxed atmosphere can certainly be strongly felt in the poetry and lyricism of these wonderful portrait studies. The invention with which Picasso was approaching his lithography was also stimulated by his life style, and in the portraits can be seen some of his most inspired ideas. For ‘Grand Profil’, above, Picasso used a soft rubbed crayon line, pen-work and brush wash, the combination giving a sense of lightness and movement to the whole surface of the image. The elongation of the proportions and the expressive contour-line created by the perfect profile pose are both used to emphasise the sense of quiet poetry and admiration in the portrait<BR><BR>Literature: <BR>1. Pablo PICASSO: Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904-1967, Volume I, by Georges Bloch, published by Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern.<BR>Reference: Bloch 444.<BR>2. Picasso Lithographs, by Fernand Mourlot, published by Book and Art, Boston, 1970.<BR>Reference: Mourlot 85.<BR>3. Pablo Picasso Lithographs. Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Munster. The Huizinga collection, Catalogue Felix Reusse, edited by Ulrike Gauss. <BR>Reference: 216 (fully illustrated p. 92)<BR><BR>Condition : Very good condition. minor tape remains verso.
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