Clown
- 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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Features and Remarks
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
Informations about the artwork
| Category | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Information about the condition
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The Print is in a good condition Traces of light. Remnants of previous mounting in margin and verso. |
Information about the artist
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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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