Description

Pablo Picasso linocut (after) ‘Picador and Matador’

Also known as : ‘Picador goading bull with Matador’

After Pablo Picasso Linocut – Lithograph on heavy weight paper

From the unsigned edition published in 1962 by Éditions Cercle d’Art, Paris and Harry Abrams, New York

Paper size:  360 x 315 mm

Image size:  325 x 270 mm

This is the ‘red and yellow edition’ – scarce collector’s item

The 2nd photo shows the linocut image as the cover of the Cercle d’Art portfolio

Absolute mint condition

Picasso created many linoleum cuts (or linocuts) between 1958 and 1961. The original Picasso linocuts were hand-signed and sold by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, in an edition size of 50.

In 1962, Picasso consented to an edition of reduced-size replicas (42% of the original size), which were beautifully printed in West Germany and published in America (by Harry N Abrams) and France (by Editions Cercle D’Art). The original linocuts were on loan from the Galerie Louise Leiris to allow for the reproduction process.

This 1962 edition has become quite scarce as collectors appreciate the quality of printing having more of the look and feel of actual linocuts and being much superior to the 1988 edition which followed.

Information on Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

Regarded as 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 Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence.

During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas.

After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.

Picasso’s work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period.

Much of Picasso’s work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism.

His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.

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.