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PABLO PICASSO
Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Toros Vallauris - 1958
Original Hand Signed and Numbered Linocut
Title : Toros Vallauris.
Technique : Original Color Linoleum Cut on Arches wove paper.
Paper size : 79,5 X 65 cm / 31.3 X 25.6 inch.
Additional Information : This Original Color Linoleum Cut is Hand Signed in Blue Crayon by Picasso at the lower right margin, as well as Hand Numbered "121/195" at the lower left margin.
The work has been printed in a limited edition of 195 impressions in 1958.
The work is also signed and dated "24.6.58" in the plate in the middle right part.
Literature:
Pablo Picasso: Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre Grave et Lithographie 1904 - 1967 (Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work, 1904 - 1967), by Georges Bloch, edition Kornfeld et Klipstein, Berne 1975.
Reference: Bloch 1282.
Condition : Very Good condition. The sheet edges with creases, discoloration of the margins and remains of adhensive tape verso, light-stain verso.
The most important of the linocut compositions which Picasso made in the 1950's inspired by his passion for the bullfight and his involvement with making ceramics at Vallauris.
The emotional drama, the colour, the panache and the clash of strength and power which are the essence of the Bullfight and so much a central element in the Spanish character were a vital element in Picasso's inspiration. In the years from the 1950's onwards, as he found himself increasingly tortured by finding the means of expression or the issues in his art, so the Bullfight also became one of the principal ways that he found release and entertainment.
It was at this period that he also became fascinated by the print medium of linocut. The softness of the block allowed him to work the gouge very freely so that wide variations of emphasis and strength could be put into the cuts. He found that he could make patterns of lines and patterns of surface which were quite unlike any other medium. These patterns could be interwoven around a treatment of form and perspective which permitted him to further explore the idea of the dual viewpoint - as in the interwoven full-face and profile of the Matador above.
Above all Picasso also found that he could use a type of colour through linocut which was totally new, resulting from the way that the block could be cut away to reveal a 'layer' of the image below. So in the 'Matador' above the black main block reveals the glowing orange-yellow below, evoking the quality of the heat of the sun on the shining sand of the bullfight arena.
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