PICASSO "Femme Au Collier" 1959 MUSEUM QUALITY Linocut

Description: Pablo PICASSO linocut titled, "Femme Au Collier (Woman With the Necklace) - Museum quality artwork Original signature in pencil in lower right margin & number 45 of 50 in lower left margin1959References: B. 928, Ba. 1258Image size is 25" high by 20 3/4" wide & Framed piece is 50" high by 45" wide *** Picasso's use of the medium of the linoleum block as a matrix for his original printmaking, derived from his desire to find a technique that would allow him to immediately create and pull his own proofs. He left Paris to live in the south of France in 1958 and there began to experiment with the technique of the linoleum cut, a medium used locally to create posters to advertise the local bull fights.*** He eventually devised a revolutionary method as used in this work, where he would continue to carve and print from the same linoleum block as he added each successive color. In effect, reducing the matrix while creating the printed image. Although created over a period of only 5 years, Picasso's linocuts have become amongst his most desirable and historically important graphic works. This work, a veritable tour de force of Picasso's mastery of the linocut technique, combines the artist's brilliant design concepts and innovative manipulations of space that were rooted in his cubist ideas from the early part of the 20th century. "Femme Au Collier" reveals a dynanamic, rhythmic movement of line and form and possesses an powerful emotional component found in the most desirable images of Picasso's oeurve in linocut. The image is one of several impressions of Picasso's 2nd wife, Jacqueline. Another exact print from this very limited edition of 50 is shown hanging in the Picasso studio of Parkwest Gallery & Museum in Southfield, Michigan. See photos. The purchaser of this will receive a copy of Volume 4 of the Parkwest Collector's Guide Volume IV. This item also includes a Certificate of Authenticity and an Appraisal, dated 6/14/2021, in the amount of $148,900. UNDERSTANDING MORE ABOUT PICASSO'S LINOCUT PROCESS Pablo Picasso was an innovator in every art form that he worked in, from painting, to ceramic, to printmaking. He frequently pushed the boundaries of the possible, and made the made the medium his own. Picasso was a talented etcher from the beginning of his artistic career. It was not until 1939, however, that Picasso tried a style of printmaking called linocut. Linocut, short for linoleum cut, is a technique of print making that uses a linoleum block. Similar in many ways to a woodcut, the artist would carve into the block, creating a relief of the image they hoped to print. What remains gets inked and printed. Unlike wood, linoleum is inexpensive and more pliable, meaning it takes much less effort to carve than wood. The soft material also allows for multiple methods of carving and holds up well for delicate details. After creating his first linocut in 1939, Picasso did not pick up the technique again until 1951. At this time he was spending much of his time in Vallauris, France. Occasionally, he would donate some of his time and skills to create a poster for an event in the town, such as a bullfight or ceramics fair. A local printer, Arnera, suggested that Picasso try linoleum as a cheap printmaking technique. After this, and for the next 10 years, Picasso immersed himself in linocuts. They still remain relatively rare in his oeuvre, encompassing only about 150 out of more than 2000 prints. His breakthrough technique was to stop carving a separate linoleum block for each color that was to be in the print. Instead, he opted to use one block and continue to carve into it, while inking the various stages along the way. The result was a block that could not make completed reprints. It could just print the graphic areas of the last color in the work. Imagine how Picasso had to think about each carving stroke in the context of the next ink color; not to mention he was doing it in reverse from the look of the end product. Please know that this valuable artwork will be professionally packaged and shipped in a manner to insure it arrives in the exact perfect condition it leaves our home. NOTE: Shipping, pick up & delivery and customs duties for international shipments beyond the United States are to be paid by the buyer.

Price: 148900 USD

Location: Weatherford, Texas

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