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PABLO PICASSO Lithograph 1969

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PABLO PICASSO Lithograph 1969
PABLO PICASSO
Mlaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish)

Tete D'Homme II from Portrait Imaginaire - 1969
Original Hand Numbered Color Lithograph

Title : Tete D'Homme II from the series "Portraits Imaginaire".

Technique : Original Color Lithograph on brown paper.

Paper size: 65 x 50 cm / 28.6 x 19.7 inch.

Additional Information : This Color Lithograph is signed in the plate "Picasso" at the upper left margin.
The work is also Dated in the plate "6.4.69 II." (1969) above to the signature.
Additionally the work is Hand Numbered in pencil "F 221/250" at the lower left margin.
Two editions of the lithographs exist. The "A" edition and the "F" edition. Each edition consists of 250 lithographs and each piece is numbered 1-250. The "F" edition was reserved for France, while the "A" edition was reserved for the Americas.
Hence, this work is from the French edition.

In early 1969, art supplies arrived at Picasso's studio in Mougins on the French Riviera. Large panels of cardboard and heavy paper had been used to ship the supplies. The supplies were uncrated and the boxes and other shipping materials were set aside against a wall in Picasso's studio. Rather than seeing large pieces of cardboard, Picasso saw 29 canvases awaiting his brush and at the age of 87 he created 29 portraits which would come to be known as the Portraits Imaginaire or Imaginairy Portraits. Each portrait was in gouache with simple and brilliant colors.

Under Picasso's personal supervision, and with the expertise of one of France's leading lithographers, Marcel Salinas, lithographs were created in the image of the 29 original Portraits Imaginaire. Proofs of the lithographs were submitted to Picasso who corrected them and noted his "bon a tirer" (meaning they were "good to print"). It took a year to create the lithographs. Upon completion, the plates were destroyed. Each print is hand numbered and carries, in the plate, the signature of Picasso as it appears on the orginal gouache. Picasso did not hand sign any of the Portraits Imaginaire lithographs.

Condition : Very Good condition. Minor surface dirt. an earsed number exist underneath the current one

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