Pablo Picasso Clown (1961)


  • Signed and limited Edition by Mourlot
  • Colourful clown - Created for the 1961 Nice Carnival
  • Most important artist of the 20th century - classical modernism

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Product number: 36014
Informations
Category Grafik
artist Picasso, Pablo
year 1961
Title Clown
size 1 Motif 64,5 x 49,5 cm
Sheet: 65,5 x 51,2 cm
material Colour lithograph on Arches wove paper
edition 200 copies, here No. 145
signature Signed and dated in the print upper right: Picasso 20.1.61Numbered in pencil lower left: 145/200Signed in pencil at lower right: Picasso
publication vgl. The Picasso Project (2002). Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Sixties I 1960-1963. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, Nr. 61-012
Provenance Private collection Germany
condition
The Print is in a good condition
Traces of light. Remnants of previous mounting in margin and verso.
artist

Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso is commonly regarded, along with Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics. His influence on contemporary art can not be valued high enough

Source: This text based upon the article Pablo Picasso from encyclopedia Wikipedia which is available under GNU Licence of free documentation. The list of contributers you can find at wikipedia.org

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Features and remarks


Here you have the opportunity to purchase a limited edition colour lithograph based on a drawing by the world-famous Pablo Picasso.

The graphic was signed by Picasso by hand.

Carnival on the Côte d'Azur

Picasso loved the Côte d'Azur and had been visiting the French Mediterranean coast regularly since the 1940s, eventually settling there permanently. In 1955, Picasso bought the villa ‘La Californie’ in Canne, and in 1961 he settled in Mougin a little further north

In nearby Nice, the ‘Carnaval de Nice’ takes place every year in February. It is the largest event on the Côte d'Azur and one of the biggest carnival festivals in the world. Picasso, for whom jugglers, circus performers and clowns have been important motifs in his paintings since at least his ‘pink period’, celebrated in Nice and was repeatedly inspired by the colourful hustle and bustle.

Picasso created the drawing shown here at the beginning of 1961, using coloured chalk to draw a pointy-haired joker with large eyes. The drawing was first published in the newspaper Le Patriote on 2 February 1961 and later published as a limited edition lithograph by the famous publisher Mourlot.

Pablo Picasso authorised the print by signing it by hand. This is number 145 of 200 copies.

„ There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.“

Pablo Picasso, 1957