Pablo Picasso, Composition (Cramer 101), Carnet De La Californie, Collotype

Condition: Pre-Owned
Collotype on vlin dArches paper. Paper size: 10.375 x 16.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonn reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et al. Pablo Picasso, the Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonn. Patrick Cramer, 1983, illustration 101. Picasso, Pablo, and Georges Bloch. Pablo Picasso, Tome I: Catalogue de Loeuvre Grav et Lithographi, 1904-1967. 3. d. rev, Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1975, illustration 94. Notes: From the album, Picasso, Carnet de la Californie, 1959. Published by ditions Cercle d'Art, Paris; printed by l'atelier de Georges Duval, Paris, fourth quarter, 1959. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album, entitled "Carnet de la Californie", has a single limited edition and appears simultaneously in France, Germany, Italy and the United States. The examples reserved for France are numbered from CI to MD. In addition, it was drawn from this album, CXX examples, including C numbered from I to C, and XX out of commerce reserved for the artist and his friends. These CXX examples are each enriched with an original lithography, signed by the artist, and a series of drawings on Arches paper. This "California notebook", made in lithography under the direction of Charles Feld, has been completed to print the fourth quarter, Nineteen Fifty-Nine on L'imprimerie Duval for phototypy, and on the presses of Mourlot Frres for lithography.

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art. In May 2015, Pablo Picassos painting, Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O), sold for $179.4 million USD at Christies New York, setting a world record for the artist.
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