Pablo Picasso

PABLO PICASSO (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973).
"Portrait of Jacqueline" 1959.
Linocut, copy 162/300.
Signed in plate and justified by hand.
Measurements: 30 x 25 cm; 58 x 44 cm (frame).

This Portrait of Jacqueline (1959) belongs to one of Picasso's most intimate graphic series, dedicated to Jacqueline Roque, his last companion and fundamental muse in the final stage of his life.

Made in linocut, a technique that the artist revitalized in the 1950s with extraordinary experimental freedom, the work demonstrates his ability to reduce the face to a few essential, direct and expressive strokes. The linocut allows him here an immediate, almost calligraphic language, where the line becomes gesture and synthesis.

Jacqueline is depicted with monumental serenity, evoking both the tradition of classical portraiture and radical modernity.

Pablo Picasso was one of the leading figures of 20th century art and co-founder of Cubism. His work is preserved in the Musée Picasso and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. In the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of New York. At the Tate Modern in London. And at the Art Institute of Chicago, among many other institutions of international reference.