Lot #956: PABLO PICASSO - Exposition Vallauris 1962 - Original color linocut poster

 

Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973).
Title: "Exposition Vallauris 1962".
Medium: Original color linocut poster.
Date: Composed 1962.
Dimensions: Overall size: 17 5/8 x 11 1/4 in. (448 x 286 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, center right; signed in the plate. Light cream wove paper. Very wide margins. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Cf. Bloch 1299; Czwiklitzer 176 (1970 ed.); Czwiklitzer 204 (1981 ed.); Cf. Rodrigo 119. Comment(s): Poster created (and exhibition held) during Picasso's lifetime, with Picasso authorizing its printing. A scarce poster; no auction records in the past 25 years located. Czwiklitzer catalogues this poster as a letterpress, but it is a linocut probably cut by Arnera. Printed by Hildago Arnera, Vallauris. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [26944-3-600]