Artist : PICASSO Pablo
Title : Face
Signature :No but hand dated in the plate by Picasso
Size : Image 9.84 x 7.87 inches - 13.38 x 11.41 inches with frame
Technique : Etching
Number : No, but what makes the value of this work is the fact that it is dated by hand in the plate by Picasso
Support : Velin Lana paper
Date : 1946
Framed : No
Origine : This etching was conducted by Braun et Cie Mulhouse-Dornach, Paris, Lyon (1952)
Condition : Good, some very light foxing but really nothing too bad for a work of more than 50 years (see photos)
Comments of the expert :Very nicely framed
Références : No
BIOGRAPHY : Pablo Ruiz Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain, on October 25th, 1881 and died on April 8th (in 91 years) to Mougins, France, is a painter, a draftsman and a Spanish sculptor having crossed (spent) the essantiel of its life in France. Artist using all the supports for his work, he is considered as the founder of the cubism with Georges Braque and a companion of art of the surrealism. It is one of the most important artisits of the XXth century, both by its technical and forlak contributions and by its politica stands. He produced about 50 000 works among which 1855 paintings, 1228 sculptures, 2880 ceramic, 7089 drawings, 342 tapestries, 150 pads of sketch and 30 000 prints (engravings, lithoraphy, ect).
Picasso does not establish a hierarchy between the different mediums of printmaking (Lithographs, Etchings ...), including the black and white is for him a way of representing the intimate.
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