Picasso, Pablo 2 Linolschnitte. 1962. Je auf Velin.... Lot n° 772

Online - Modern and Contemporary Art Classical Modernism Picasso, Pablo 2 linocuts. 1962. each on wove paper. Sheet dimensions 32 x 38 cm each. - The left margin of each with narrow, vertical tear-off edge and slight paper abrasion. With a few, barely noticeable brown stains in the corners. Partly also verso. Good overall. Excellent, rich and powerful impressions with narrow margins. Cf. Bloch 925 and 919 (motif). - Contains: - Femme regardant par la Fenêtre - Femme couchée. - Our sheets are a reduced version after the linocuts of the same name from 1959 - Picasso invented the method of "reduction", in which the same linocut block was gradually cut out for each new color, so that it was impossible to make further prints from the original printing block. In 1962, in collaboration with Picasso and the Galerie Louise Leiris, new linoleum plates were produced at 42% of the original size, from whose edition the present work comes. 2 linocuts. Each on wove paper. - The left margin of each with narrow, vertical tear-off edge and slight paper abrasion. With a few, barely noticeable brown stains in the corners. On the verso in part as well. Good overall. Superb, rich and powerful impressions with narrow margins. - Our sheets are a reduced version after the linocuts of the same name from 1959 - Picasso invented the method of "reduction", in which the same linocut block was gradually cut out for each new color, so that it was impossible to make further prints from the original printing block. In 1962, in collaboration with Picasso and the Galerie Louise Leiris, new linoleum plates were produced at 42% of the original size, from whose edition the present work originates