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PICASSO, Pablo, Carnival Clown, 1964
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Signed Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), Original Color Lithograph, Carnival Clown, 1964  |
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| Artist: | Picasso, Pablo (1881 - 1973) |
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| Title: | Carnival Clown, 1964 |
| Medium: | Original Color Lithograph |
| Image Size: | 25 in x 19.5 in (63.5 cm x 49.5 cm) |
| Sheet Size: | 30 in x 24 in (76.2 cm x 61 cm) |
| Framed Size: | 42.5 in x 34.5 in (107.95 cm x 87.63 cm) |
| Signed: | This work is signed by Picasso in blue crayon in the lower right |
| Edition: | Lettered E.A. (for Epreuve d Artiste) (Artist Proof) in pencil in the lower left margin. Aside from the numbered edition of 200. |
| Condition: | This work is in great condition, the colors are rich and saturated! |
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| Description: | |
Created in 1964, this color lithograph is printed on BFK Rives wove paper and based on an original work done in colored pencil from the same year. Featured on the cover for the French newspaper, Le Patriote for their January 1964 issue. Hand signed in the lower right margin by Pablo Picasso in green crayon, this work is lettered E.A. in pencil in the lower left margin. The large scale of this piece, coupled with vivid color and rich details, combines to create a spectacular work! The painterly quality of this piece is most clearly evident in the gentle detailing around the face of the clown. Brilliantly colored with vibrantly saturated hues, this work captures the essence of the artists use of divided light and pure color. Executed in a portrait-style manner, this piece is light and refreshing, jovial and contemplative it delights our senses and enchants our imaginations. This work is in wonderful condition with rich and saturated colors. Full of luminous and vivid colors, Carnival Clown depicts a clown in a mythic and nymph-like environment. Filled with ethereal details and organic elements, this piece embodies a Renaissance feel with a distinctively modern sensibility.
CATALOGUE RAISONNE & COA: 1. The Online Picasso Project, Texas A&M University. Dr. Enrique Mallen, 2007. http://picasso.csdl.tamu.edu/picasso/. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonne no. OPP.64:045. 2. The Picasso Project. Picasso Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts: San Francisco, 2002. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonne no. 64-015 on pg. 5.
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| Style: | 20th Century Modern Art, Modern Artist, Cubism, Cubist |
Biography of Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
"Yet Cubism and Modern art weren't either scientific or intellectual; they were visual and came from the eye and mind of one of the greatest geniuses in art history. Pablo Picasso, born in Spain, was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along. The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his early works, which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture.
"He was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered. He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Toulouse-Lautrec, whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain - all in the years 1899 to 1904.
"Before he struck upon Cubism, Picasso went through a prodigious number of styles - realism, caricature, the Blue Period, and the Rose Period. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and is characterized by a predominantly blue palette and subjects focusing on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes. This was when he also produced his first sculptures. The most poignant work of the style is in Cleveland's Museum of Art, La Vie (1903), which was created in memory of a great childhood friend, the Spanish poet Casagemas, who had committed suicide. The painting started as a self-portrait, but Picasso's features became those of his lost friend. The composition is stilted, the space compressed, the gestures stiff, and the tones predominantly blue. Another outstanding Blue Period work, of 1903, is in the Metropolitan, The Blind Man's Meal. Yet another example, perhaps the most lyrical and mysterious ever, is in the Toledo Museum of Art, the haunting Woman with a Crow (1903).
"The Rose Period began around 1904 when Picasso's palette brightened, the paintings dominated by pinks and beiges, light blues, and roses. His subjects are saltimbanques (circus people), harlequins, and clowns, all of whom seem to be mute and strangely inactive. One of the premier works of this period is in Washington, D.C., the National Gallery's large and extremely beautiful Family of Saltimbanques dating to 1905, which portrays a group of circus workers who appear alienated and incapable of communicating with each other, set in a one-dimensional space.
"In 1905, Picasso went briefly to Holland, and on his return to Paris, his works took on a classical aura with large male and fernale figures seen frontally or in distinct profile, almost like early Greek art. One of the best of these of 1906 is inthe Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY, La Toilette. Several pieces in this new style were purchased by Gertrude (the art patron and writer) and her brother, Leo Stein. The other major artist promoted by the Steins during this
