Autographs
"Picasso" Signed Beautiful Colorful Serigraph Print Framed
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973). Famous Spanish Artist and the Leading Figure in 20th-Century Art.
c. 1952 Original Signed Serigraph Print, Signed, "Picasso" in rich black pencil at the lower right corner, Choice Mint condition. This a print of his painting "Girl in Divan", no date or place, about 10.25" x 8.25" (by sight), matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5" x 18.25". This nice looking quality frame is in gold and black decorative modern wood and ready to hang on display. It was taken from a book of Picasso prints and then signed by the artist for the book seller as documented on its COA. Signed in pencil. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Nicholas Georgeson at Lothian Autographs.
The Spanish-born son of a painter and art professor father, Picasso began his formal art instruction at an early age. By 1900, he had moved to Paris, the center of the art world at the time. There, between 1907 and 1908, Picasso and Georges Braque, inspired by the work of Cezanne, developed what became known as "cubism," the visual representation by overlapping planes of three-dimensional objects onto a two-dimensional surface.
Arguably modern art's greatest achievement, this innovative style influenced everyone from Fernand Lger and Marc Chagall to Le Corbusier and Piet Mondrian. Perhaps the most famous cubist work is Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica, depicting the April 26, 1937 bombing of the ancient Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. Exhibited throughout Europe, the United States and South America to raise funds for Spanish refugees, it raised Picasso's international profile.
In between tours, the painting resided in New York's Museum of Modern Art, which also hosted a major retrospective of his works in 1939, solidifying his place in the pantheon of modern art.