Literature
Georges Bloch 1970
Brigitte Baer 1979
Artist Biography
Pablo Picasso
Spanish • 1881 - 1973
One of the most dominant and influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was a master of endless reinvention. While significantly contributing to the movements of Surrealism, Neoclassicism and Expressionism, he is best known for pioneering the groundbreaking movement of Cubism alongside fellow artist Georges Braque in the 1910s. In his practice, he drew on African and Iberian visual culture as well as the developments in the fast-changing world around him.
Throughout his long and prolific career, the Spanish-born artist consistently pushed the boundaries of art to new extremes. Picasso's oeuvre is famously characterized by a radical diversity of styles, ranging from his early forays in Cubism to his Classical Period and his later more gestural expressionist work, and a diverse array of media including printmaking, drawing, ceramics and sculpture as well as theater sets and costumes designs.
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Pablo Picasso

La Fête de la patronne, avec un amour ithyphallique. Degas au nez rouge (The Patron Saint's Day, with Phallic Love. Degas with the Red Nose), plate 114 from Séries 156 (Bl. 1970; Ba. 1979)

1971
Etching, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins.
I. 36.7 x 49.2 cm (14 1/2 x 19 3/8 in.)
S. 50.4 x 65 cm (19 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
Stamp-signed in black ink and numbered 22/50 in pencil (there were also 15 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1978, framed.

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£1,500 - 2,000 •‡♠

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