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About the Work
"Bacchanale with Acrobat (B.933)" is a hand-signed linocut on paper, from the edition of 70, created by Pablo Picasso in 1959. The image size is 21 x 25" and the artwork is framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black and gold frame. The artwork ships framed and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Picasso’s linocut prints are some of his most extraordinary. Created in the years between 1958 and 1963 after he and Jacqueline left Paris for the countryside, they created an intense technical challenge to his spontaneity, and they make up the majority of the artist’s print work in color. From a technical perspective, he was not happy with the laborious process of cutting and registering several different blocks for the precise final printing. Instead, he and his master printer Hidalgo Arnéra pioneered the reduction method in which the same block is successively cut and printed after each cut. Now he could work quickly, with Arnera’s assistance, allowing full spontaneity in creative decisions, changes in direction and the final result. The linocuts he created in Vallauris were ground-breaking in color and form, elevating a method that prior to his exploration was mostly utilized for simple posters.
Literature: Baer, B. Picasso Peintre-Graveur: Tome V - Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre Gravé et Des Monotypes 1959-1965. Galerie Kornfeld, Berne, 1989. pgs. 339-341. no. 1264.
Bloch, G. Pablo Picasso: Tome I – Catalogue de l’œuvre grave et lithographié 1904-1967. Galerie Kornfeld & Cie., Berne, 1998. pg. 202. no. 933.
About the Artist
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 26, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. His father was a professor in the School of Arts and Crafts and often took him to bullfights which would influence much of his art throughout his career. It is said that Picasso learned to draw before he could speak. Picasso studied the works and styles of many Spanish artists including Francisco Goya, El Greco, and Diego Velázquez. At the beginning of the 1900s, Picasso moved to Paris, France to open his own studio. He was lonely and depressed after the death of a close friend, which ignited what is now known as his “Blue Period”. A few years later, Picasso started the “Rose Period”, which introduced warmer colors to his works. Picasso is commonly known as the pioneer of Cubism, in which objects are broken apart and reassembled in an abstracted form; it is destructive and creative. Cubism shocked, appalled and fascinated the art world.
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