Original Hand Signed Pablo Picasso Linocut - 1950 La Colombe De La Paix w/ COA Paris. For collectors only.

This original linocut from 1950 is hand signed by Pablo Picasso in pencil in the lower right margin. It was originally part of an edition of 50 but it’s not copy numbered. The work is in excellent condition and is not signed in the plate. Beware of fakes! A lot of eBay sellers are selling fake linocuts with fake signatures. This print is authentic and has been certified by French arts commissioner Cabinet Frémeaux in Paris in 2022. The certificate of authenticity is provided and shipment is insured. Own a real piece of Art history.

Throughout his long career, encompassing most of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso tried his hand in almost all art media. Of these artistic pursuits, printmaking absorbed much of his attention: he produced 2,430 images. But apart from his prolific output, his standing as one of the greatest printmakers of all time—in a league with Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, and Francisco Goya—is due to his restless investigation of new ways to produce his muscular images.

Relief prints are made by inking raised parts of a surface, then impressing it on a sheet of paper—rubber stamps used in offices are a familiar example. Linocuts are made by carving away part of the surface of a sheet of linoleum, then inking and printing the remaining surface. Picasso liked the bold, simplified forms that linocut readily produced, so he began to use it to make posters during his summer stays in Vallauris, in the south of France.

Eventually, Picasso wanted to use linocut to produce more complex, multi-color images. One of his most ambitious attempts was an attempt to make an updated version of a portrait of a woman painted by Lucas Cranach the Younger in the 1500s. Picasso used about eight different blocks to produce all the colors. Unfortunately, he and the professional printer with whom he collaborated had difficulty aligning them when printing. He sought a more reliable method using just one block for all the colors.

In working on the linocuts, Picasso collaborated with Hidalgo Arnéra of Vallauris. Arnéra may well have introduced Picasso to the concept of layering and reduction. Which of them thought of applying it to block cutting, we don’t know. It seems that they hit upon the reduction linocut together. Nonetheless, the bravura use of the technique must be fully credited to Picasso.

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