Pablo Picasso – Das Graphische Werk

Description

Pablo Picasso, Das Graphische Werk is an original vintage lithograph poster made in 1954.  Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Czwiklitzer 94.

The image in this poster is “Le Repas Frugal” from the Saltimbanques series.  This etching was Picasso’s first major effort in printmaking.

The Blue Period of Picasso is the period between 1900 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. These somber works, inspired by Spain but painted in Paris, are now some of his most popular works, although he had difficulty selling them at the time. Picasso settled in Paris in 1904, having spent a few difficult years with no fixed studio and little artistic success. While back in 1903, he had produced his Blue Period works, which seemed to reflect his experience of relative poverty and instability, depicting beggars, street urchines, the old and frail and the blind.