Picasso Bust of a Woman in Hat Print, Signed, Framed

About the Item

Picasso. A bold graphic head-and-shoulders portrait built from flat, poster-like colour areas with heavy black contour drawing, in the manner of Picasso's late linocuts. The face is divided vertically, one half yellow and one half red, framed by dark green hair and topped by a wide ochre-yellow hat with red accents. Below, a red and white patterned bodice band closes the composition. The sheet has a generous white margin and is set behind a cream mat with a fine dark line, in a gold moulded frame under glass. Medium: colour offset lithograph after a linocut. Signed lower right, in the sheet margin, reading "Picasso". Inscribed on the reverse or mount: Picasso (pencil, lower right margin). Condition: Heavy glass glare across the upper sheet in the photograph; no tears, foxing or losses visible. The image reproduces Buste de Femme au Chapeau, a linocut in colours Picasso created in 1962 with the printer Hidalgo Arnera, inspired by Jacqueline Roque and catalogued as Bloch 1072 and Baer 1318; the original linocut appeared in a numbered edition of only 50, and colour prints of this image in circulation today are later photomechanical editions after it.

About the Artist

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), the Spanish co-founder of Cubism, reshaped twentieth century art across painting, sculpture, ceramics and printmaking. Images from his late linocut and lithograph series are among the most reproduced of the modern era.

Details

Creator:

Pablo Picasso

Creation Year:

late 20th to early 21st century reproduction of a 1960s image

Medium:

colour offset lithograph after a linocut

Period:

20Th

Condition:

Offered in the condition shown in the photographs.

Reference Number:

VO-258

Documentation:

No certificate photographed with this listing.

Gallery Location:

Picasso (pencil, lower right margin)