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Pablo Picasso, Lithograph Maison de la Pensée Française, 1958

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,000.00 EUR Estimated At:1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR
Pablo Picasso, Lithograph Maison de la Pensée Française, 1958
Colour lithograph on paper
France, 1958
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) – Spanish painter, graphic artist and sculptor
Signed and dated in the stone lower right ‘Picasso / le 14.1.58’
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
Catalogue raisonné: Czwiklitzer, no. 32; Mourlot no. 314
Poster for the Ceramic Exposition 1958
Limited edition of 500 copies
Sheet size: 64.5 x 47 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Viennese private collection
A humorous exhibition poster by the famous Spanish artist; lithographs by Picasso from the same period fetch over 12,000 euro on the international auction market

This lithograph was printed by Mourlot in 1958 after a chalk drawing by Pablo Picasso on the occasion of a ceramic exhibition by the Spanish artist in the Maison de la Pensée in Paris. This is a copy from a limited edition of 500. In the centre Picasso has rendered a dish with a stylized face exhibiting the Spaniard’s typical humorous manner. Location and date of the exhibition are indicated in scrawly handwriting.



The lithograph by Pablo Picasso is in good condition with light signs of age. There is a tiny tear to the right margin and a small stain in the lower centre, amidst the writing. The work is signed and dated in the stone lower right ‘Picasso / le 14.1.58’. The beautiful frame shows slight signs of age and wear. Framed the work measures 90 x 70 cm, the sheet measures 64.5 x 47 cm.



Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born 1881 in the Spanish city of Málaga and first visited the art academy La Llotja in Barcelona. In 1897 he went to Madrid and studied for a short time at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, which he quit without graduating. The artist spent the years around the turn of the century in Paris, where he returned time and again and eventually spent the majority of his lifetime. He established Cubism with his French friend Georges Braque, deeply influencing later avant-garde artists. Picasso left behind an enormous body of work comprising roughly 50,000 artworks, comprising paintings, drawings, graphic art, sculptures and pottery. His 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon became the key work of modernism. Already during Picasso’s lifetime, two museums were established in his honour: the Museo Picasso in Barcelona and the Musée Picasso in Antibes in southern France.
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