Hi,

I would like to offer the offset lithograph print after Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973) from the series "Vollard Suite";  edition released during the artist's life in 1956. The lithograph is realeased on handmade paper from "those years" (slightly yellowed edges).

The photos at the auction show the graphic work and reflects its state of preservation. I send this illustation flatways, protected by thick carton. It comes from my personal collection and it is not the present-day reproduction.

Details:

• Author: after Pablo Picasso

• Title: "Minotaure vaincu" (cf. Bloch 197)

• Editor: Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1956.

• Type: offset lithograph

• State: very good

• Sheet size: 28 cm x 20,5 cm (11 x 8 inch) --> matted to 30 cm x 24 cm

• Copyright: SPADEM, Paris.



About the Vollard Suite:

In 1930 the avant-garde art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard gave Picasso the commission to produce the 100 etched plates that make up the series in exchange for paintings by Renoir and Cézanne. Though Picasso executed most of the work in a frenzy of creative activity during the spring of 1933, it took him seven years to complete the project and another two for the master printmaker Roger Lacourière to finish printing 230 full sets. Vollard’s sudden death in May 1939, followed by the outbreak of war, meant that the complete sets only came on to the market in the 1950s. Unlike Picasso’s illustrations to Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Balzac’s Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu, the images in the Vollard Suite have no literary source. Picasso inscribed each plate with the year, month and day that he drew the image, suggesting that we should engage with the Vollard Suite as though it were a visual diary of the artist’s creative life in the 1930s. This feels right. Because the series was made over a period of years, both the imagery and the emotional register of the prints constantly shifts to reflect Picasso’s erotic and artistic obsessions, marital vicissitudes, and the darkening political situation in Europe.

Museums that have the Vollard Suite:

British Museum; Colby College Museum of Art; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid; Harry Ransom Center; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACC); National Gallery of Australia; National Gallery of Canada; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and others.

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