AFTER PABLO PICASSO (Málaga 1881 - 1973 Mougins), Two Nudes

AFTER PABLO PICASSO*
(Málaga 1881 - 1973 Mougins)
Two Nudes
color lithography/paper, 84,7 x 35 cm
In the stone dated, numbered and signed 4. 2. 69. III Picasso, verso rubber-stamped Mourlot M Paris, Reproduction lithographique SPADEM 1972
Provenance: private property Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 500
START € 200

Spanish painter, graphic artist and sculptor; full name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Great variety of artistic expressions and techniques. Passed the entrance exam to the La Llotija Art Academy in his native Barcelona at the age of 14. 1897 Briefly studied at the Royal Academy of San Fernando, Madrid. 1898 Returned to Barcelona, where he socialized in avant-garde Catalan Modernist artistic circles, including Ramon Casas, Carlos Casagemas, Isidre Nonell, Ramon Pichot i Gironès, and Santiago Rusiñol, who met at the Els Quatre Gats café and artists' center. From June 1898 he spent eight months with his painter friend Manuel Pallarès in the latter's hometown of Horta de Sant Joan. In 1899 he met the poet Jaime Sabartés, who would become his close friend and in 1935 his secretary.
In February 1900, first solo exhibition at Els Quatre Gats. In 1901 he worked briefly for the magazine Arte Joven. Then trip to Paris: the art dealer Pere Mañach, the gallery owner Berthe Weill and the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard made efforts to find Picasso. In 1901 Picasso dedicated the painting Evocation - Casagemas' Funeral to his friend Casagemas. Acquaintance with Gertrude and Leo Stein and with Matisse. Wilhelm Uhde brought Picasso to the attention of the young German gallery owner Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who had opened his first gallery at 28 rue Vignon. Kahnweiler became his most important patron and exhibited Picasso's works that same year. In Germany, Picasso was represented in the exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich in 1910, as well as in the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne in 1912 and in Herwarth Walden's gallery Der Sturm in Berlin. Turned away from the Cubists (1916-1924), came to terms with Surrealism (1924-1936). 1923 Picasso met the Surrealist André Breton. 1928 Appearance of the Minotaur motif in his works. 1935 Etching series Minotauromachie, inspired by Francisco de Goya's Tauromaquia. Picasso is the creator of the paintings Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, a key image of Classical Modernism, and the monumental painting Guernica (1937) about the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Extensive collections in museums in Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. His turn to classical interpretations of masterpieces after World War II was demonstrated by works such as Women of Algiers by Eugène Delacroix in 1955, Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas in 1957, and Édouard Manet's Breakfast in the Open Air in 1961. As early as 1946, an exhibition at the Louvre had juxtaposed his paintings with those of classical masters. Picasso is prominently featured in many major art museums that exhibit 20th-century art. The Museu Picasso in Barcelona and the Musée Picasso in Antibes were established during his lifetime. Picasso's dove, designed in 1949 for the Paris World Peace Congress, became a symbol of peace worldwide.



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