Pablo Picasso: The Complete Linoleum Cuts, 1939-1968 (Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. a Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885-1973) - Hardcover

The Picasso Project.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556603290 ISBN 13: 9781556603297

Publisher: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2012

Synopsis

This catalogue is the most comprehensive yet to appear on Picasso's linoleum cuts. There are descriptions of 194 linocuts on paper and 10 on ceramics. This is the first catalogue to give examples of preliminary versions, the published edition and of rinsed impressions of the same linocut. The standard Baer and Bloch catalogues only give titles in French and do not give the size of the sheets on which the linocuts were printed and published. This new catalogue presents titles in both French and English, including variant titles. It also specifies a range of acceptable sizes of the printed image and of the sheet size, both of which are important to the collector and connoisseur in order to authenticate a print. The previous catalogues often gave different dimensions for the same image and this catalogue infers a range of reasonable dimensions both for the image and the sheet. There are introductions by prominent experts and collaborators of Picasso, specifically relative to the linocuts. The catalogue contains indexes of the titles, both in French and in English, as well as separate concordances to the Baer and Bloch catalogues. At each catalogue entry, there are also references to the print in prior catalogues and in auction sale catalogues, for unique and unusual impressions.Picasso s first linocut is in support of the Czech artists living in France after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in March, 1939 (L-001). Beginning in 1951, he starts an annual tradition of creating a linocut poster in support of the potters of Vallauris, where he had become a resident and a potter himself. From 1952 to 1958 he creates linocuts as posters for the annual pottery exhibition in Vallauris together with a few experimental linoleum block prints.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1556603290
• ISBN 13: 9781556603297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1