Pablo Picasso 1961 Lithograph "Jeu de la Cape"

Item Details

Pablo Picasso (Spanish; 1881 – 1973)
Jeu de la Cape, 1961
Transfer lithograph on paper
Unsigned
From the folio A los Toros Avec Picasso, text by Jaime Sabartés
Published by André Sauret, Éditeurs
Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris
Marked in plate to the lower left corner “6-3-61-III”
Descriptive label adhered to the lower margin of matting

Literature
George Bloch, Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work; figure 1015
Patrick Cramer, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, no. 113
Fernand Mourlot, Picasso: Lithographs, figure 348

A pioneer of Modern art, Pablo Picasso began his artistic studies as a young child taught by his father. Picasso mastered the fundamentals of art at a young age, which allowed him to deviate and create new movements later in his career. His Blue Period and Harlequin phase show his master of color to express emotion and his notable Cubist and Surrealist works display his understanding of form. Guernica was of the most inspiring paintings from Picasso’s Cubist period, which was painted during the Spanish Civil War in response to the bombings in the Town of Guernica, Spain. His work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the MoMa, New York; among many others.

Condition

- minor wear and negligible toning throughout matting; glue residue and minor wear throughout the margins of paper due to previous display; negligible toning throughout the paper.

Dimensions

- measures the matting; sheet size 12.5" W x 9.75" H; printed image measures 10" W x 8.5" H.

Item #

ITMG119379