Pablo Picasso Lithograph of Bullfight Scenes, 1945

Item Details

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 – 1973)
Bullfight Scenes, 1945
Lithograph on paper
Signed to lower right
Scraped lithographic ink solid plate, cut out and pasted on lithographic paper and transferred to stone. Arches watermark.

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 one 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

- print is adhered to mat with degrading cellophane tape, a drop of ink on paper surface just under the mat on the lower left, undulations to sheet; creases to right edge and upper center; mat burn to paper from a past acidic mat; textural inconsistencies to left side of matting; trapped debris; chips and abrasions to frame; paper and adhesive residue to verso of frame; tears along edges to cardboard backing.

Dimensions

- measures frame. Sight measures 13″ × 18.5″.

Item #

ITMGQ41862