Pablo Picasso

PABLO PICASSO (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973).
"Femme assise"; 1954.
Etching on poplin with transparency Marais.
Signed in plate.
Edition of 200 unnumbered copies, from the illustrated book "Les cavaliers d'ombre".
Measurements: 38,8 x 25,6 cm (print); 41 x 32,5 cm (sheet); 65 x 51 cm (frame).

Picasso's collection of etchings "Les cavaliers d'ombre" is a declaration of love for the Spanish pictorial tradition. This collection, which features a poem/prologue by Rafael Alberti, presents a surrealist experience where various characters, such as dwarfs and acrobats, coexist with mythological figures.

Creator of cubism together with Braque, Picasso was a turning point in the history of art. He began his studies in 1895, at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, and only two years later he had his first individual exhibition, at the café "Els Quatre Gats". After several short stays in Paris, Picasso settled definitively in the French capital in 1904. The definitive international recognition will come in 1939, as a result of the retrospective that the MOMA in New York dedicates to him. During the following decades, anthological exhibitions will be dedicated to him all over the world, in Rome, Milan, Paris, Cologne and New York, among many other cities. He is represented in the most important museums around the world, such as the Metropolitan, the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in London or the Reina Sofia in Madrid.