Description:

After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) original National Gallery of Art exhibit poster for The Saltimbanques. The underlying piece is titled Family of Saltimbanques, which is after the original which was created by Picasso in 1905. This poster was produced on very thick, high gloss paper in 1981. It is matted and framed under glass in a black frame. It measures 29.5 inches x 35.5 inches. This piece was acquired from a Metro Washington DC estate. Because this is a poster and not the original piece of art, it is listed as after Picasso.

    Provenance:
  • Acquired from a Metro Washington DC estate.
  • Dimensions:
  • 29.5IN x 35.5IN (75cm x 90cm)
  • Artist Name:
  • After Pablo Picasso
  • Medium:
  • Art Exhibit Poster
  • Circa:
  • 1981
  • Notes:
  • About the Artist: Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain.  The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blanco, he began to draw at an early age.  In 1895, the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso studied there at La Lonja, the academy of fine arts.  His visit to Horta de Ebro from 1898 to 1899, and his association with the group at the café Els Quatre Gats about 1899 were crucial to his early artistic development.  In 1900, Picasso's first exhibition took place in Barcelona, and that fall he went to Paris for the first of several stays during the early years of the century. The Spanish painter, graphic artist and sculptor Pablo Picasso created a body of work of about 50,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and ceramics.  He studied at the Royal Academy in Madrid and at the Art Academy in Barcelona, where his father taught.  In 1901 Picasso had his first exhibition in a gallery in Paris, followed by numerous international exhibitions. Picasso settled in Paris in April 1904, and soon his circle of friends included Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude and Leo Stein, as well as two dealers, Ambroise Vollard and Berthe Weill. His style developed from the Blue Period (1901-04) to the Rose Period (1905) to the pivotal work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and the subsequent evolution of Cubism from an Analytic phase (ca. 1908-11), through its Synthetic phase (beginning in 1912-13). Picasso's collaboration on ballet and theatrical productions began in 1916.  Soon thereafter, his work was characterized by neo-classicism and a renewed interest in drawing and figural representation.  In the 1920s, the artist and his wife, Olga (whom he had married in 1918), continued to live in Paris, to travel frequently, and to spend their summers at the beach.  From 1925 into the 1930s, Picasso was involved to a certain degree with the Surrealists, and from the fall of 1931 he was especially interested in making sculpture. In 1932, with large exhibitions at the Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, and the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the publication of the first volume of Christian Zervos's catalogue raisonné, Picasso's fame increased markedly. By 1936, the Spanish Civil War had profoundly affected Picasso, the expression of which culminated in his painting Guernica (1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid). Picasso's association with the Communist Party began in 1944. From the late 1940s, he lived in the South of France.  Among the enormous number of Picasso exhibitions that were held during the artist's lifetime, those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1939 and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 1955 were most significant. In 1961, the artist married Jacqueline Roque, and they moved to Mougins.  There Picasso continued his prolific work in painting, drawing, prints, ceramics, and sculpture until his death April 8, 1973.
  • Condition:
  • Excellent

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