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Bust of a Woman after Cranach the Younger is a color linocut created by Pablo Picasso in 1958 at Vallauris, France. It reinterprets a portrait associated with the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Younger through flattened shapes, strong contours, and sharply separated areas of color. Pic...
Pablo Picasso's 1962 color linocut reinterprets Édouard Manet's 1863 painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, known in English as Luncheon on the Grass. It belongs to Picasso's sustained engagement with Manet's composition and with works by earlier European masters. The print translates the recognizable gr...
Still Life Under the Lamp is a 1962 color linocut by Pablo Picasso, created during his intensive printmaking activity in Vallauris in southern France. It depicts a tabletop still life beneath a prominent lamp, reducing the objects and surrounding space to bold contours and interlocking fields of col...
A colour linocut by Pablo Picasso reinterpreting the elongated portrait style of Spanish Renaissance master El Greco, produced during his prolific Vallauris printmaking period.
A colour linocut by Pablo Picasso depicting a woman in a flowered hat, produced in Vallauris, France using his pioneering reductive method of cutting a single block progressively.
A colour linocut by Pablo Picasso depicting a mythological bacchanal scene, produced in Vallauris using his reductive technique in which a single block is progressively cut and reprinted.
A 1959 colour linocut by Pablo Picasso combining bacchanal imagery with an owl and young harlequin, made using his reductive elimination technique with printer Hidalgo Arnéra in Vallauris.
A colour linocut by Pablo Picasso presenting a stylised female head, made using the reductive technique he pioneered with printer Hidalgo Arnéra at Vallauris, France.
A 1959 colour linocut by Pablo Picasso depicting a nude beneath pine trees, created at Vallauris using the elimination method he developed with printer Hidalgo Arnéra.
Profile of a Faun is a color linocut by Pablo Picasso portraying the head of a faun in profile. The subject draws on Greco-Roman mythology, a recurring source for Picasso across painting, ceramics, drawing, and printmaking. Its reduced shapes, emphatic contour, and layered areas of color reflect the...
