Description

Pablo Picasso litho Modèle nu et Sculptures – Nude Model and Sculptures

This lithograph is part of the extensive ‘Vollard Suite’ – plate 72

The 100 original drawings date from 1930 to 1937, the period in which Picasso drew the complete series, a commission from Ambroise Vollard, the art dealer.

They deal with central themes in Picasso’s art such as the relationship between model, artist and work, the relationship between man and woman, and the myth of the Minotaur. This makes it a key body of work for the understanding of Picasso’s oeuvre.

In plate date info says 3 May XXXIII but reversed!

Original lithograph on wove paper, c1956 – B193

Limited edition published by Mourlot, Paris – handsigned

Size Sheet : 28 x 21 cm

Image size : 22 x 15.7 cm

Condition: Excellent

Picasso gave no order to the plates, nor did he assign any titles to them. Picasso kept the plates open-ended to allow connections to be freely made among them, yet specific thematic groupings can also be identified.

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.