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About the Work
"Portrait of Jacqueline (B.1065)" is a hand-signed linocut created by Pablo Picasso in 1962. From the edition of 71, the image size is 25.25 x 20.75" 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 was a master in the art of all media, but nothing is more distinctive to his identity than the print making process known as linocut. This is a relief media, akin to woodcut, but using linoleum. Normally, in multi-color works, multiple plates are used, one for each color. However, Picasso was an endless innovator. He came up with a way to generate overlaid colors from a single cutaway plate. The first imprint was solid, usually comprising the background. Each successive series of cutaway’s produced more of a void, so the prior layer could show through. Each new visit to the plate yielded the possibility of another color. No one had thought of anything like this before him. Picasso’s final muse, and second wife, Jacqueline, became the iconic emblem of Picasso’s concept of feminine beauty. Her long black hair, one her most memorable features, is the topic here in one of his most characteristic portraits.
Literature: Baer, B. Picasso Peintre-Graveur: Tome V - Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre Gravé et Des Monotypes 1959-1965. Galerie Kornfeld, Berne, 1989. pgs. 372-373. no.1285
Bloch, G. Pablo Picasso: Tome I – Catalogue de l’œuvre grave et lithographié 1904-1967. Galerie Kornfeld & Cie., Berne, 1998. pg. 224, no. 1065.
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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