Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Profil de femme (Jacqueline)

Profile of Woman (Jacqueline)
1969
    Offset lithograph heightened with red pencil, "avant la lettre" edition poster
  • Printed by Schaub, published by Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1970
92.2 × 62.5 cm
Donated by the artist
Signatures and Inscriptions
Signed, dated and dedicated ΄Goulandris / picasso / 1er Avril 1970’ (lower), signed ΄picasso΄ (lower right, printed)
Provenance

Private collection, since 1970

Exhibited

Athens, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Memories steeped in dream, August 5 – December 3, 2023

Literature

Miguel Orozco, Catalogue Raisonné of Picasso Posters, academia.edu, 17 May 2019, pp. 287-288, no. 660 (two other signed impressions illustrated)

Current location
Artwork is not currently on display
Tour Guide Code
284
Audio Guide

Picasso has always been known for his tendency to experiment. No technique, no media, no form of artistic expression was unfamiliar to him. In the field of engraving, he was particularly interested in linocut, which he learned in the mid-1950s. This technique gave him the opportunity not only to draw thicker and more flexible outlines, but also to experiment more easily and effectively with the accumulation of colour layers.

Basil and Elise Goulandris visited the master at his villa in Mougins in the spring of 1970. From this unforgettable meeting they kept the memory of this linocut bearing the date, the artist’s signature and a dedication. The work represents the profile of Picasso’s favourite model back then, his wife, Jacqueline. At the same time, an exhibition of Picasso’s linocuts was organized at the Beyeler Gallery in Basel. The exhibition poster was a copy of this linocut, that the creator must have appreciated a lot. And it is not difficult to understand the reason: Jacqueline’s so charming but also austere profile is enlivened by vivid, cool colours, giving the whole such an optimism and joy that few engravings have managed to convey until today.

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Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)
Gender
Man
Nationality
Spanish
First Name
Pablo Ruiz y
Last Name
Picasso
Birth
Málaga, Spain, 1881
Death
Mougins, France, 1973