Pablo Picasso linocut 'Picador and Matador'

Also known as 'Picador goading bull with Matador'

After Picasso's linocut : litho on heavy weight paper

From the unsigned edition published in 1962 by Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris and Harry Abrams, New York

Paper size : 360 x 315 mm

Imagesize : 325 x 270 mm

This is the 'red and yellow' edition - scarce collector's item

The 2nd photo shows the lino cut as the cover of the Cercle d'Art

Litho is in absolute Mint Condition

Picasso first became interested in making linoleum cuts, following his meeting with the young printer, Hildago Arnèra, because the technique appeared to him well suited to the execution of graphic posters.

The artist’s first linoleum cuts were, for this reason, bold but simple images. Once he began to visualize significant multicolor compositions in linoleum cut, the medium became more central to his expression, succeeding in printmaking his work in lithography, which had reached a peak of virtuosity in his 1958–59 portraits of Jacqueline, but which had become frustrating for him to work on by long-distance correspondence with his lithographic printer in Paris, Mourlot.

In his linoleum cuts, as in other mediums, what appealed to Picasso was the exploration and extension of the limits of the technique, and the pleasure of retaining, in visual form, the evolution of a work of art as it developed through the stimulating interplay between concept and means of realization.