Picasso, Pablo Deux femmes. 1962. Linolschnitt... Lot n° 774

Online - Modern and Contemporary Art Classical Modernism Picasso, Pablo Deux femmes. 1962. linocut on wove paper. 27 x 32 cm (32 x 38 cm). - Left margin with narrow, vertical tear-off edge and slight paper abrasion. Slight brownstaining in the margins, also very faint on the verso. Good overall. Excellent, nuanced impression with narrow margins. Cf. Bloch 915 (motif). - Our sheet a reduced version after the linocut 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 impressions 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. Linocut on wove paper. - Left margin with narrow, vertical tear-off edge and slight paper abrasion. Slight brown staining in the margins, also very faint on the verso. Good overall. Superb, nuanced impression with narrow margins. - Our sheet a reduced version after the linocut 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 impressions 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.